Cannot access dashboard

Check your custom role’s level setting. This can be set using the dropdown at the bottom of the role editing screen.

Another possibility is that you have third party code restricting wp-admin dashboard access to a specific set of roles.

@livedub Sorry, we can’t try and solve multiple problems for different users in one thread. Please email [email protected] if this is still an issue.

Yes, good point @nicholassang

We ended up writing a blog post on the importance of “read”:
https://publishpress.com/blog/read-permission-wordpress/