Can not seem to get mute commands to work with Discord py

Question

I can not find a mute command for my discord bot, and I do not know how to write one. The tutorials and pieces of code out there are not working. The most recent code produces no errors messages, but the command will not initiate. How?

@commands.has_permissions(manage_messages=True)
async def mute(ctx, member: discord.member, *, reason=None):
  guild =ctx.guild
  mutedRole = discord.Utils.get(guild.roles, name="Muted")
  if not mutedRole == await guild.create_role(name="Muted"):
    for channel in guild.channels:
      await channel.set_permissions(mutedRole, speak=False, sendmessages=False, read_message_history=False, read_messages=False)
  await member.add_roles(mutedRole, reason = reason)
  await ctx.send(f"Muted {member.mention} for reason {reason}")
  await member.send(f"You were muted in {guild.name} for {reason}")```

Answer 1

There are many mistakes and typos in the code. Adding @bot.command(name=name) before @commands.has_permissions(manage_messages=True) fixed it for me:

intent = discord.Intents(messages=True, message_content=True, guilds=True)
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="", description="", intents=intent) 
#See if you have "intents=<someintentobject>" and enable them in your Discord Developer Portal


@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print("It's online!")


@bot.event
async def on_message(message: discord.Message):
    await bot.process_commands(message) #Let the commands process the message


@bot.command(name="mute") #This decorator tells that the mute function is a command the bot should process
@commands.has_permissions(manage_messages=True) #Run the mute command only if the message's author has the permission to manage messages
async def mute(ctx, member: discord.Member, reason=None): #Removed the extra arguments' asterisk (*)
#It's discord.Member, not discord.member
    guild = ctx.guild
    mutedRole = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name="Muted") #utils, not Utils
    if not mutedRole == await guild.create_role(name="Muted"):
        for channel in guild.channels:
            await channel.set_permissions(mutedRole, speak=False, send_messages=False, read_message_history=False,
                                          read_messages=False) #send_messages, not sendmessages
    await member.add_roles(mutedRole, reason=reason)
    await ctx.send(f"Muted {member.mention} for reason {reason}")
    await member.send(f"You were muted in {guild.name} for {reason}")

Add await bot.process_commands(message) in your on_message.

I've removed the * (args); it works fine without it. You can add it if you want.

See this example of a kick command.

Answer 2

 @bot.command()
 @commands.has_permissions(manage_messages=True)
 async def mute(ctx, member: discord.Member, reason=None):
    
    if member == ctx.author:
        embed = discord.Embed(
            color=discord.Colour.red(),
            description="You can't mute yourself !"
        )
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)
        return

    muterole = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.roles, name="MUTED")
    if muterole is None:
        muterole = await ctx.guild.create_role(name="MUTED")

        for channel in ctx.guild.text_channels:
            await channel.set_permissions(muterole, overwrite=discord.PermissionOverwrite(send_messages=False))

    if muterole in member.roles:
        embed = discord.Embed(
            color=discord.Colour.red(),
            description=f'This member is already muted'
        )
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)
        return

    await member.add_roles(muterole)
    embed = discord.Embed(
            color=discord.Colour.green(),
            title=' Muted',
            description=f'**{member.mention}** is now  **permanently muted** reason: **{reason}**.'
        )
        embed.set_footer(text=f'Muted by {ctx.author}.')
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)

basically what a "mute" command does is to create or directly assign a role to a member, the most important part is that the mute role to be correctly configured. there's also more complex methods of mute command, for example temp mute command which allows you to mute someone for a certain amount of time specified by the mod, but these days is recommended that you use the timeout feature is a lot easier and more efficient. but there you have it, a basic mute command with the appropriate checks.