Title: Default WordPress role is incorrect
Last modified: January 7, 2021

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# Default WordPress role is incorrect

 *  [publicradio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/publicradio/)
 * (@publicradio)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-wordpress-role-is-incorrect/)
 * I created a number of membership types: 1 year, 3 year, lifetime, and free. I
   set the default role for 1 year to ‘s2Member Level 1’, because I’m migrating 
   away from the s2Member plugin. When I registered a 1-year member, it added the
   user with the ‘subscriber’ role.
 * I thought that maybe this was because ‘s2Member Level 1’ isn’t a core WordPress
   role. So, for ‘free Member’ I set the default WordPress role to ‘contributor’.
   When I registered a free account, it set this user to ‘subscriber’ again.
 * In order to smoothly transition to Simple Membership from s2Member, I’m going
   to need these new Simple Membership members to have this s2Member Level 1 role,
   if I want the existing content permissions to work. How do I fix this problem?

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 *  Plugin Support [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-wordpress-role-is-incorrect/#post-13879704)
 * Hi,
 * >  I thought that maybe this was because ‘s2Member Level 1’ isn’t a core WordPress
   > role. So, for ‘free Member’ I set the default WordPress role to ‘contributor’.
   > When I registered a free account, it set this user to ‘subscriber’ again.
 * Did you create this account manually?
 * The reason why I asking this is because I jut completed a test in my dev site.
   I created a new membership level first with Editor role assigned to it. Then 
   I added a new member manually and selected the new membership level with Editor
   role assigned. I then checked to see what user role was assigned to this new 
   member under **WP Users**. Editor role was assigned to their account. So I can
   confirm this feature to work in my end.
 * Maybe a plugin is conflicting with your registration process.
 * Kind regards
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/).

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 * Last reply from: [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-wordpress-role-is-incorrect/#post-13879704)
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