Admin users not visible in Edit Profile dropdown

Hi @aklaren,

This is intended, by default the users that have the Administrator user role will not appear there. But if you wish to see Admins in the “User to Edit” selection, then you will need to use the following code:

add_filter( 'wppb_edit_other_users_dropdown_query_args', 'wppbc_allow_administrators_to_be_edited_in_frontend' );
        function wppbc_allow_administrators_to_be_edited_in_frontend( $args ){

            unset( $args['role__not_in'] );

            return $args;
            
        }

Note: You can use the code by adding it to your theme’s ‘functions.php’ file or by creating a new plugin as described here.

Best regards,

Thanks for the reply. I don’t understand why this was changed (in previous releases users with admin roles were included). Since this is only shown to admins, I don’t see the need to hide (other) admins by default.

The main reason is that now you can give other users roles only one extra capability so that they could also view the “User to Edit” select. Until now, for this to happen, you also had to give them the capability that would make then similar to an Administrator (but now, this is no longer necessary).

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

On second thoughts, the above mentioned work-around causes a big problem for us. We have a.o. roles for “trial members” and “members” and some “members” are also “admin”. We want to use the “Edit profile” page to easily upgrade “trial members” to “members” (or a similar role). But since the “admin” rol cannot be included in the “Select (User Role)” field, (accidentally) updating the profile of a “member” who is also an “admin” (even without changing anything) will cause the “admin” role to be removed, leaving the “member” rol only. Is there a way to include the “admin” role in the “Select (User Role)” field too? Or any other suggestions?

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