Title: Enable ‘edit_users’
Last modified: August 21, 2020

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# Enable ‘edit_users’

 *  Resolved [kywong85](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kywong85/)
 * (@kywong85)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-edit_users/)
 * Hi, may I know how do I enable ‘edit_users’ for administrator of a child site?
   Thank you.

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 *  Plugin Author [Justin Fletcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinticktock/)
 * (@justinticktock)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-edit_users/#post-13294268)
 * If you have users on a “child” or “sub-site” and they have the standard WordPress“
   Administrator” role then they already have the “edit_users” capabilities as this
   comes with the “Administrator” role.
 * if you want to add the “edit_users” capability to a different role, which currently
   doesn’t have that capability then you can use a plugin to do this. you can have
   a look at [https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/)
   which does this.
 * does that help, if not what are you trying to do ?
 *  Thread Starter [kywong85](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kywong85/)
 * (@kywong85)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-edit_users/#post-13295918)
 * Hi, that’s strange. My “sub-site” Administrator was not able to “edit_users”.
 *  Plugin Author [Justin Fletcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinticktock/)
 * (@justinticktock)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-edit_users/#post-13296253)
 * ok re-reading the actual manual ..
    [https://wordpress.org/support/article/roles-and-capabilities/#edit_users](https://wordpress.org/support/article/roles-and-capabilities/#edit_users)
   it shows a network is slightly different to a single WP install on starting.
 * it shows that only the Super Admin has “edit_users” capability so yes your local
   sub-site admins won’t have any of the following, without being given them manually…
 * update_core
    update_plugins update_themes install_plugins install_themes delete_themes
   delete_plugins edit_plugins edit_themes edit_files edit_users add_users create_users
   delete_users unfiltered_html
 * be careful if you start adding any of these as they will give quite a bit of 
   access to Network functions.
 * I think I forgot on my test site that the capabilities have been given manually
   already.
 *  Thread Starter [kywong85](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kywong85/)
 * (@kywong85)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-edit_users/#post-13299121)
 * Thanks for your reply. Anyway that I can activate the “edit_users” with the plugin
   manually? Any code that I can add in? Thanks.
 *  Plugin Author [Justin Fletcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinticktock/)
 * (@justinticktock)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-edit_users/#post-13299602)
 * You can do it manually as I mentioned earlier, however, it’s nothing todo with
   this NSUR plugin. It will be standard WordPress with a different plugin.
 * I’ll mark this as resolved now, try ‘user role editor’ or another plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [Justin Fletcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinticktock/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-edit_users/#post-13299602)
 * Status: resolved