Issue with Spaces in Role Names

Thanks for your quick response, Steve.

This problem is not just on one site, it’s on hundreds of our websites using the custom role.

Are you saying you will not take a look at your plugin to see how a role could not be editable and be stored without spaces in the role_name?

Hi @stevejburge,

I’ve found that the problem started in version 2.3.3.

Steps in the previous version 2.3.2:

• Go to WP Admin > Capabilities > Roles
• Click on the role with a space in the name. (This takes you to the edit screen.)
• Click to turn on “Edit Others” capability.
• Save Changes
• See the messsage “Settings saved.”

Steps in version 2.3.3 and current development version:

• Click on the same role as above, with a space in the name.
• Expect to see the edit screen with the capabilities.
• Instead, see the message “The selected role is not editable.” and no capabilities.
• Go back to the Roles page and mouse-over the role > click on Delete.
• See warning message “Are you sure you want to delete this role?”
• Click on OK, but the role will not delete.

Hoping that there is a way for you to make the role work again with the spaces. Thank you for your time.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by cinderalla.

– Can you confirm the error exists in 2.3.4?

Yes, it does happen in 2.3.4

– Does it happen with new roles?

No, it doesn’t happen. When you create a role with spaces, the spaces are replaced with underscores when you save it.

Hi @stevejburge,

There are no errors in the site log or with wp_debug enabled. Were you able to test with a role with spaces in it?

I wasn’t able to add one like that via the WP Admin interface, so it must have been added to the database with the spaces somehow. Strange is that we were able to edit the role with the spaces before version 2.3.3.