Ok… So changing “New user default role” under Settings>General to “author” does nothing. A new user still gets assigned “subscriber” role.
I have tried so many plugin to solve this. I have assigned author roles to the subscriber role using plugins. It does not work. I have read about it, how people tried adding a snipped in .php files – and how that did not solve it.
The site does not load everything correctly for users with only “subscriber” role. It works fine after I manually change role to “author”. I have tried disabling most plugins, still when I create a new user, its role is “subscriber” regardless of what I set it to under Settings>General.
I have spent days on this little thing. And since it is a wordpress function….one would think that changing the default role settíng for new users would change the function. It is WordPress 6.4.3.
And again, if I manually change the role for a user to “author” the site works fine for that user when logged in. This seems to be a very basic function with wordpress that should not be easily corrupted.
Since so any people seem to have a similar problem it seems this is an issue with wordpress. I mean, wordpress should override and control the role a new user gets in wordpress once that role has been chosen in the settings. Anything else makes little sense.
I have read the forum here and found no real match to this issue.
Is there any fool proof way to force wordpress to assign the new user default role, or a way to automatically switch user role after user has been created?