Wordpress: check for custom user role in frontend

Question

I simply want to display some message when a user has a custom user role. It works with native user roles, but not with custom ones. Here is my code:

<?php
$user_ID = get_current_user_ID();
$user = new WP_User( $user_ID );
$current_user = $user->roles[0];

if( $current_user == 'client' ){
   echo 'hello client';
} else {
   // do nothing
}
?>

Any help is welcome, thanks!

Answer 1

You can try this :

if ( is_user_logged_in() )
{
    global $current_user;
    $user_role = $current_user->roles[0];

    if($user_role == 'client')
    {
    // do something
    }
}

is_user_logged_in() is used to check whether user is logged in or not