A newly registered user (or Added User) is assigned "inactive" and displays at the bottom of the User List by Role.

[MichaelH]

A newly registered user (or Added User) is assigned "inactive" and displays at the bottom of the User List by Role of Users.

The user-edit.php shows "Additional Capabilities: inactive" for the new registrant.

Interestingly, only "inactive" users show "Additional Capabilites:" in user-edit.php.

You can not Set the Role for this new user either.

Isn't this really a reflection of the fact there is no way to officially set what capability (or is it role) is assigned new users?

[MichaelH]

When a new user is added here's what wp_usermeta has:

wpbz_capabilities:  a:1:{s:8:"inactive";b:1;}
wpbz_user_level:  0

Then when you Set the Role to make Editor;

wpbz_capabilities:  a:2:{s:8:"inactive";b:1;s:6:"editor";b:1;}
wpbz_user_level:  7

[ringmaster]

The default role for new users must be set correctly at install/upgrade.

[MichaelH]

This worked for me. Thanks.

Tested both an upgrade.php and an install.php

[ryan]

(In [3105]) Assign a valid default role. Props ringmaster. fixes #1823