handbook/commands/user/remove-role.md

wp user remove-role

Removes a user's role.

OPTIONS

See the argument syntax reference for a detailed explanation of the syntax conventions used.

<user>

User ID, user email, or user login.

[<role>...]

Remove the specified role(s) from the user. If not passed, all roles are removed from the user; on multisite, this removes the user from the current site/blog.

EXAMPLES

$ wp user remove-role 12 author
Success: Removed 'author' role from johndoe (12).

$ wp user remove-role 12 author editor
Success: Removed 'author', 'editor' roles from johndoe (12).

# On single-site: removes all roles from the user
$ wp user remove-role 12
Success: Removed all roles from johndoe (12) on http://example.com.

# On multisite: removes the user from the current site/blog
$ wp user remove-role 12
Success: Removed johndoe (12) from http://example.com.

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.

Argument	Description
--path=<path>	Path to the WordPress files.
--url=<url>	Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.
--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host|container>[:<port>][<path>]	Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of "docker", "docker-compose", "docker-compose-run", "vagrant").
--ssh-args=<args>	Pass additional arguments to SSH (or other tools specified by --ssh scheme).
--http=<http>	Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.
--user=<id|login|email>	Set the WordPress user.
--skip-plugins[=<plugins>]	Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.
--skip-themes[=<themes>]	Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
--skip-packages	Skip loading all installed packages.
--require=<path>	Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
--exec=<php-code>	Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once).
--context=<context>	Load WordPress in a given context.
--[no-]color	Whether to colorize the output.
--debug[=<group>]	Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
--prompt[=<assoc>]	Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
--quiet	Suppress informational messages.
--alias=<name>	Name of the alias to use. Aliases can reference local WordPress installations or remote SSH connections. Aliases are defined in the wp-cli.yml file.
--assume-https	Set $_SERVER['HTTPS'] to make WordPress treat the site as HTTPS. Use when WordPress is behind an HTTPS proxy or load balancer.