theslink2000

This plugin doesn’t do anything on the surface but if you call the get_user_role() function then you can achieve one of two results.
Function
Returns the role of the specified user.
Usage
Parameters
$user_id 
(string)(optional) ‘username’
Return Values
(string) If no $user_id is specified in the function call the function will return the role of the currently logged in user, otherwise the role of the specified user will be returned.
Examples
$role = get_user_role(“admin”);
This will return “administrator”.
Notes
This plugin may call the following global variables:
$current_user 
$wp_roles 
$wpdb
This plugin is designed to work with any correctly made custom roles.

Get User Role

A simple plugin that add's the get_user_role() function to your site.

Gravuj Miklos Henrich

Add users on each of your sites inside the network (Multisite). If, before the installation of this plugin, a user was registered only on one of your sites, with this plugin you can add it to all of your sites and assign to all his site profiles his default (choosen) role. If no role was choosen for the user at the registration, the default role for new registered users will be used for the user. After the installation of this plugin, every further user registration will be synchronised on all your sites inside the network (Multisite).

Network User Management

Synchronise users and user roles from main Blog, automatically add users to each site in your WordPress network (Multisite).

Get User Role vs Network User Management