Vladimir Garagulya

Hi Daniela,

‘Ninja Tables’ is allowed for ‘administrator’ role by default. It’s possible to change using custom filter ninja_table_admin_role. For example, add ‘editor’ role to the list of allowed user roles:

add_filter('ninja_table_admin_role', 'set_ninja_table_admin_role', 10, 1);
function set_ninja_table_admin_role( $roles ) {

    $roles[] = 'editor';
    
    return $roles;
}

You can add this code to the active theme’s functions.php file or install it as a Must Use plugin.

You may check directly at the database if all roles granted to your user saved at the database or they don’t. Example of checking user roles for admin user is here.

It seems, that you have the corrupted WordPress user roles database record.

Please read this article and look directly at the database, if user roles have the ‘name’ attribute. If they do not have ‘name’ attribute for some reason, you have to restore this database record value from the older backup, when they have it.

There is no built-in read-only functionality in WordPress. Even to see the list of posts user should have ‘edit_posts’ capability.

Hi,

wp-includes/class-wp-roles.php is a part of WordPress core API for work with user roles and capabilities. WordPress itself and other plugins use it, not only User Role Editor (URE).

Will you still see similar notices in debug.log in case you deactivate URE?

Contributor role does not include ‘upload_files’ capability by default. But it should be possible to grant additional capabilities to this role, until some plugin does not block this. Try to deactivate all plugins and update contributor role again. Test. Then activate plugins back one by one with a new test to isolate a reason.

Sometimes active theme functions.php file would be modified by developer and contain code which may be a reason of the issue.

Hi,

“Profile Fields” menu item is protected by ‘manage_options’ user capability.

In order to use manually added user capability, programming is needed to check user permission and allow/prohibit showing UI element or corresponding action.

URE allows to delete user capability only if it was not granted to any role, except ‘administrator’. Revoke this capability for roles. Then it will become available for deletion.

All changes are applied directly to WordPress database and stay AS IS after plugin deactivation and deletion. URE overwrites WP internal DB record when you save changes.
URE creates a copy of original DB record with user roles on the 1st activation.
You may manually copy data from there to restore the state before you change something.

Look at the part III of this article for more details.