WooCommerce Change User Role On Registration

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About This Solution

This code snippets changes the user role upon registration. By default, users are assigned the “Customer” user role. This snippet allows you to change that and assign a different user ole. In this specific example, we change the user role to “Contributor”. If you wish to assign a custom user role, you will first need to create this role. Search our guides on user roles to see how to create new user roles and apply certain capabilities.

/**
 * Snippet Name:	WooCommerce Change User Role On Registration
 * Snippet Author:	ecommercehints.com
 */

// Change the default 'Customer' role to 'Contributor'.
add_filter( 'woocommerce_new_customer_data', 'ecommercehints_change_user_role_on_registration' );
function ecommercehints_change_user_role_on_registration( $args ) {
  $args['role'] = 'contributor';
  return $args;
}