Not able to save Fields

Having the same exact issue. I do not have the “Also consider what WordPress and Pods provide you built-in” in my error message, but the rest is the same: “Error: role is reserved for internal WordPress or Pods usage, please try a different name”

I have checked the database and all of the existing Pods for name conflicts and found none. Then, I tried with a bunch of ridiculous names with the same result.

Used the extend post types for posts to add fields, and it disappears after clicking save.

There are certain fields that WordPress builds in, and some are available within Pods as specially mapped to their associated parts, like ‘thumbnail’, etc.

Have you tried a different field name than ‘role’?

I didn’t get that error btw. Think the problem is it’s not saving period.

@stacy I saw you posted on GitHub, I’ll reply there so I can ask you more specific questions about your issue, I’m not entirely sure it’s related to the original poster’s problem.

https://github.com/pods-framework/pods/issues/1540

@gpeery / @thomas: There’s a list of fields built into the WordPress objects that we restrict from adding directly into Pods itself here in the code:

https://github.com/pods-framework/pods/blob/2.x/classes/PodsAPI.php#L624

Further, you’ll find that there’s an ‘alias’ for some fields, so that you can access ‘post_title’ with ‘title’, etc. Any taxonomies you’ve got associated to the post type, like ‘category’, will also be added to the list of restricted field names.

Let me know if you have any further questions.