New roles don’t work – is there a limit?

  • I have been using User Role Editor for years. Awesome. Never an issue. Today I created some new roles but they don’t work. Default permissions ie Read. The role is used to display a menu if a user has the role. If I use a role created last week it works but not the new role. I thought I had too many roles so I deleted some. No change.

    I don’t know how many I have created over the years but maybe 100 but only 30 active.
    Is there a limit on how many roles we can create in the free version?

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  • Plugin Author Vladimir Garagulya

    (@shinephp)

    There is no limit on the quantity of user roles in the free version. The quantity of user roles is limited by the available memory only.

    Thread Starter obverse

    (@obverse)

    I deleted 10 roles so if the issue is memory it should have resolved it. It didn’t so is there anything I can do to fix this? Because our needs are simple I can uninstall / reinstall to resolve the issue. But, I would like to fix it if I can. Any ideas appreciated.

    Plugin Author Vladimir Garagulya

    (@shinephp)

    I mean you may get the PHP fatal error due to memory limit, but not some change in the script logic.

    I suppose a reason is somewhere else. Is menu displayed to user with ‘read’ capability or role name is checked somehow. The custom script logic and user role name structure may be involved in the 2nd case.

    Thread Starter obverse

    (@obverse)

    The menu isn’t displayed to users with ‘read’ when a new role is created. Existing roles do show the menu. To be clear I haven’t changed any code, just add/remove roles.
    I looked for some logging in the code but didn’t see any. Is there a way to see if there are any errors generated?

    • This reply was modified 3 months ago by obverse.
    Plugin Author Vladimir Garagulya

    (@shinephp)

    You can turn WordPress into DEBUG mode and look if something wrong is happening at wp-content/debug.log file.

    https://developer.www.ads-software.com/advanced-administration/debug/debug-wordpress/

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