wdcbetsey

correction and follow-up. I thought I had deactivated all plug-ins to troubleshoot– but i did not. The conflict was due to an out-of-date plug in: Import Eventbrite Event by Xylus Themes. The problem with creating new user/password was solved

I also just updated to wp 5.5.1 and having the same problem: cannot add a new user because the “password” field is not working. It does not open a dialog box with a new generated password as it did in the past. I just deactivated all my plug-ins, the situation remains unchanged: cannot add new user because there is no way add password (auto-generated or manually)