Title: Drop down menu widget?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Drop down menu widget?

 *  [justinmarine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinmarine/)
 * (@justinmarine)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-widget-3/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m looking for a drop down widget plugin that i can use to categorize different
   products on different pages. Everyone seems to suggest **Dropdown Menu Widget**,
   but i get an error message “Do not have sufficient permissions” when I try to
   activate it.
 * Can you recommend a way to fix this? or a drop down plugin that works?
 * Thanks for any help.
    Justin

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 *  Anonymous User 9588789
 * (@anonymized-9588789)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-widget-3/#post-6520258)
 * You need to be an Administrator in your WordPress site to activate plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [justinmarine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinmarine/)
 * (@justinmarine)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-widget-3/#post-6520298)
 * Thanks for the reply Anthony. I am the administrator, so I don’t think that’s
   the issue.
 * I read in another article that I need to turn off ‘file editor’ in the Better
   WP Security plugin for this to work, but I don’t have Better WP Security plugin
   installed.
 *  Anonymous User 9588789
 * (@anonymized-9588789)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-widget-3/#post-6520303)
 * Have you verified that whatever user Apache is running under has read/write/execute
   permissions to all of your WordPress files?
 * You can run `<?php echo exec('whoami'); ?>` to get the name of the Apache user.
 * I have found on local installations in particular that the file permissions and
   owners needs to be adjusted from their defaults. I do it by adding the Apache
   user to the group associated with all web files and giving both the file owner
   and file group read/write/execute access.
 * SELinux could also be causing problems if it is turned on.
 * In case other plugins are causing permissions / access issues, you may also want
   to try disabling all plugins and see if you can activate the dropdown plugin.
   If that works, then you’ll know one of your other plugins is causing problems.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-widget-3/#post-6520303)
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