How to set default user role in WordPress?

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I have a website that uses Wishlist Member to control registration and BBPress.

I can assign a role to the user upon registration for the Forums. However, I can’t assign them a role for the website, which WordPress uses to allow users to access their profile at http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin/profile

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Any ideas on how I can allow the users to access their profile if they wish to change their password or upload a picture etc.

I have set the role default in WordPress for new users to be ‘Spectator’ but when I create new users no user role is being set.

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  1. Google is still your friend.

    From EarnestoDev (Set default role):

    // Hijack the option, the role will follow!
add_filter('pre_option_default_role', function($default_role){
    // You can also add conditional tags here and return whatever
    return 'subscriber'; // This is changed
    return $default_role; // This allows default
});

    https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/31791/how-do-i-programmatically-set-default-role-for-new-users

    Fromt t310s (Change user role):

    // NOTE: Of course change 3 to the appropriate user ID
$u = new WP_User( 3 );

// Remove role
$u->remove_role( 'subscriber' );

// Add role
$u->add_role( 'editor' );

    https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/4725/how-to-change-a-users-role

    From mike23 (change user role):

    $my_user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$my_user->set_role( "editor" );

    https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/22962/how-to-programmatically-add-a-user-to-a-role

    From Dan Gilmore (change role on multisite):

    //Short version
$user_id = $result['user_id'];
$user = new WP_User($user_id);
$user->remove_role('owner');
$user->add_role('administrator');

    http://dangilmore.com/blog/2011/10/19/programatically-changing-users-roles-in-wordpress-multisite/