Publishing fails with access role field error
Saving or publishing posts fails with a not-allowed error on an internal access role field, even for administrators.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 3 July 2026 · last reported 7 July 2026
What's going wrong
After a recent update, site owners report that publishing or saving posts, pages and custom post types fails with a message saying the user may not edit an internal access role field.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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