Title: Profile dropdown menu &#8211; Admin options
Last modified: April 29, 2017

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# Profile dropdown menu – Admin options

 *  Resolved [arneskeie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arneskeie/)
 * (@arneskeie)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-dropdown-menu-admin-options/)
 * Hi there,
 * I have an issue with the profile edit dropdown menu (cog icon on profile). I 
   want to let some other users (with WP user role set to “Editor”) have the options
   to Approve, Deactivate, Delete our member accounts from the front-end dropdown
   menu.
 * Currently these options only appear for me, even though I have given the other
   users in question the same Community role/capabilities as me. They are able to
   approve/deactivate/delete accounts from the Users dashboard in the admin panel,
   but these options do not appear for them in the drop-down menu front-end. (They
   only get the “Edit Profile” and “Log in as this user” options).
 * What can I do to make the extra options appear front-end for my fellow editor
   users?
 * Best,
    Arne

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 *  [borisv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borisv/)
 * (@borisv)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-dropdown-menu-admin-options/#post-9083667)
 * Did you also test and see what happens when you give them administrator user 
   roles? Make a dummy account with both administrator user role and admin community
   role and see what happens with that dropdown menu.
 * If it works, it means that the edit capability in UM roles is not in sync with
   the author’s.
 *  Thread Starter [arneskeie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arneskeie/)
 * (@arneskeie)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-dropdown-menu-admin-options/#post-9085103)
 * Hey [@borisv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borisv/),
    Thanks for your 
   quick reply! You are quite right, when I give them Administrator user role, the
   options do appear in the dropdown menu.
 * However, I need to keep their user role as Editor instead of Administrator. Do
   you have any tips on how to change the UM edit capabilities so the options also
   appear for the Editor user role?
    Much appreciate your help!
 * Very best,
    Arne
 *  [borisv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borisv/)
 * (@borisv)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-dropdown-menu-admin-options/#post-9085168)
 * Did you try syncing?
 *  Thread Starter [arneskeie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arneskeie/)
 * (@arneskeie)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-dropdown-menu-admin-options/#post-9085241)
 * Yes, I have tried to sync/link their community role with the WordPress ‘Editor’
   User Role. Didn’t do the trick though… no changes in the dropdown menu. It still
   shows only the ‘Edit profile’/’Login as this user’ options.
 * Might mention that I am using the Adminimize plugin to limit the content in the
   WP admin panel for ‘Editor’ users. But they still have the capabilities to approve/
   deactivate/delete accounts for other users in the admin panel, so I’m pretty 
   sure this shouldn’t have any effect on the issue with the UM profile dropdown
   menu.
 *  [borisv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borisv/)
 * (@borisv)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-dropdown-menu-admin-options/#post-9085500)
 * The way I dealt with what you want to do was by creating 2 new roles; one for
   WordPress and one for UM. I renamed them both. I used a plugin called “Capability
   Manager Enhanced” to give WP user role permissions. The UM role was synced via
   the widget in UM User Roles.
 * The result was a user capable of approving, editing and deleting user profiles.
 *  Thread Starter [arneskeie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arneskeie/)
 * (@arneskeie)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-dropdown-menu-admin-options/#post-9085725)
 * Wow, thanks mate, that solved it for me!
 * I was using a plugin called User Role Editor to manage capabilities. I removed
   it (after reseting it), and installed Capability Manager Enhanced instead. After
   syncing/linking the ‘Editor’ user role to the community role in UM, the extra
   options in the dropdown menu now appear just the way I wanted.
 * Seems like the User Role Editor plugin caused problems with role syncing, or 
   I might have screwed up some settings in the plugin. Anyway, switching over to
   Capability Manager Enhanced fixed the issue.
 * Again, thanks a bunch for helping out [@borisv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borisv/)!!

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