The admin capabilities (Admins > Manage Admins) simply equate to the sections of the forum administration menus.

On the front end – the public facing forum of the web site – anyone set as an ‘admin’ can do and see everything. There are NO restrictions. But as the owner of a website you may wish to curb their activity in the back-end administration. For example – you may not want them to to be able to create or delete forums. Or change options.

So these are the capabilities that define what they can access in the back end administration.

I know what they are.. I was looking for a detailed resource on each feature. Does one exist?

I am not really sure of what level of detail you are asking for here. A quick look at the forum admin menu makes it pretty obvious what each section contains I would have thought.

if you are actually meaning each admin panel individually then ee do have spots earmarked in the new codex for this information although I am not sure how much we will actually put in there as the bulk of that information and real detail exists in the popup help on each panel itself which is a far more valuable and useful source. Putting that into the codex as well would just be repetition and cumbersome.

Maybe that is my problem.. I’m not getting the popup information.

On the admin panels? Top right corner of each block? Button with ‘help’ on it?>

I’m under Admins/ Manage admins. The only box with help on the top right corner is “Admins – Manage Admins” (the very top panel) it has a help section but the other ones do not.. I understand most of the options, I can create a fake user and play around with the settings… I just wanted to add two forum admins and allow them to remove posts and move them… it seems like all of the “manage admin options” are for allowing your admins to customize the plugin. 

I’m an idiot… I was looking for Moderator options.. nothing to see here folks..move along.

🙂 I was coming to the conclusion that you really wanted moderators. Do you have that sorted now or do you need any help/advice?

Nah, I’m good now… years and years of using forums and I brain farted alllll over that one… Thanks for taking the time… I don’t envy the enormous amount of stupidity you must put up with on a day to day basis..lol

no worries! we have done worse! thanks for the update.