Custom user roles doesn't apply changes

Question

I have created a custom user role but something strange happens.

This is the role:

add_role('custom-role', 'Custom Role', array(
'activate_plugins' => false,
'delete_others_pages' => true,
'delete_others_posts' => false,
'delete_pages' => true,
'delete_posts' => false,
'delete_private_pages' => true,
'delete_private_posts' => false,
'delete_published_pages' => true,
'delete_published_posts' => false,
'edit_dashboard' => false,
'edit_others_pages' => false,
'edit_others_posts' => false,
'edit_pages' => true,
'edit_posts' => false,
'edit_private_pages' => true,
'edit_private_posts' => false,
'edit_published_pages' => true,
'edit_published_posts' => false,
'edit_theme_options' => false,
'export' => false,
'import' => false,
'list_users' => true,
'manage_categories' => false,
'manage_links' => false,
'manage_options' => false,
'moderate_comments' => false,
'promote_users' => false,
'publish_pages' => true,
'publish_posts' => false,
'read_private_pages' => false,
'read_private_posts' => false,
'read' => false,
'remove_users' => true,
'switch_themes' => false,
'upload_files' => true,
'update_core' => false,
'update_plugins' => false,
'update_themes' => false,
'install_plugins' => false,
'install_themes' => false,
'delete_themes' => false,
'delete_plugins' => false,
'edit_plugins' => false,
'edit_theme' => false,
'edit_files' => false,
'edit_users' => true,
'create_users' => true,
'delete_users' => true,
'unfiltered_html' => false
));

This is nothing fancy. But the problem is that at first I set all the values to false. If I log a user in with the chosen role it shows Dashboard, posts, reactions, profile and extra.

The problem is that if I change a value from false to true nothing changes.
I have loged out and in, removed my cookies and deleted my cache.

I don't know how to fix this.

Answer 1

in WP documentation:

NB: This setting is saved to the database (in table wp_options, field wp_user_roles), so it might be better to run this on theme/plugin activation

It means that when you first run your code it is saved to db, and if you try to do it one more time it will not be changed becouse it is already in DB.. you should remove role before making changes..