How to use WP Roles with B2BKing

By default, B2BKing does not use WP roles (such as 'customer', 'editor', etc.). Instead, the plugin uses its own groups to organize customers — we prefer this approach as it results in fewer conflicts.

However, for compatibility with other plugins that use roles, you may want B2BKing to also sync its groups with a WP role.

How to Enable WP Roles Sync #

You can achieve this in three steps:

(1) Install a plugin that adds support for multiple roles. For example, you can use:

Members or HM Multiple Roles

(2) Add the following PHP code snippet to your site:

add_filter('b2bking_use_wp_roles','__return_true');

(3) Now deactivate and reactivate the B2BKing Pro plugin.

That's it. The plugin will now have created a WP role for each B2BKing group. From this point on, the plugin will continuously sync groups and roles automatically whenever a user is created, saved, etc.

However, for existing users, you may need to manually sync the role initially. One quick way to do this is to simply save each user in the backend — this will also sync the group and role.