Did you ever find an answer to this?
It may not be very relevant to you, but the context in which I encountered this issue of “hidden” capabilities was while troubleshooting problems resulting from a recent update of bbPress (a forum plugin from automattic). In researching it, I found some info about how WP handles Roles that I never knew, and it pointed my thinking in the right direction.
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/roles-and-capabilities-in-bbpress-2-2/
Thank you, that is very helpful.
Martin
Thank you, that is very helpful. I see that many of the capabilities of the roles have
changed, and the number has decreased drastically.
Martin
I’m also seeing this with roles created by WooCommerce. The customer role is listed in the Roles list as having 3 capabilities, but when I click to edit it, only “read” is checked.
I need to create another type of customer that has access to discounts, so I’d like to duplicate the existing Customer role and add an additional capability to it, however, i can’t duplicate the existing Customer role if I can only see 1 of its 3 capabilities.
I can clear this up. In the WooCommerce plugin, the file woocommerce.php creates both the Customer role and the Shop Manager role using the built-in WordPress function add_role. Notice that the Customer role does have 3 capabilities assigned. Notice that although the 3 capabilities are assigned, only one of them is true (read) and the edit_posts and delete_posts capabilities are false. This means that when looking at the checkboxes in the Roles section of the Members plugin, only the read role will be checked (because the others are false and unchecked!). So even though it says 3, it’s only really 1 true capability. Therefore if you create a duplicate role (let’s say Wholesaler), and only check the read capability, it will show as 1 capability, which is completely correct, because the other capabilities are false and unchecked. And since you assigned it using the Members Plugin tool, and not via a function that assigns other capabilities false, you won’t see the matching 3 capabilities, you’ll only see the 1. I’ve used this with WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and it works perfectly!
Thank you somethumb! That is super helpful information. I am also planning to use this with Dynamic Pricing, so now I can move forward with creating the additional customer level. Thank you so much for sharing, really appreciate it.
