Title: administrator capabilities
Last modified: June 1, 2022

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# administrator capabilities

 *  [Pexle Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pexlechris/)
 * (@pexlechris)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/administrator-capabilities-2/)
 * I try to edit capabilities of admin but there is no choice to edit Adminstrator’s
   capabilities.
 * In the roles’ dropdown there is no Administrator role

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 *  Plugin Author [Vladimir Garagulya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shinephp/)
 * (@shinephp)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/administrator-capabilities-2/#post-15704940)
 * Open “Settings->User Role Editor->General” and turn ON the option “Show Administrator
   role at User Role Editor”. URE will start show ‘dministrator” role the “Select
   Role” dropdown list.
 * But you can not revoke capabilities from ‘administrator’ role via URE. This is
   a superuser role for WordPress which should can anything.

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 * Last reply from: [Vladimir Garagulya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shinephp/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/administrator-capabilities-2/#post-15704940)
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