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I am new to Simple Press and am very much a newb at building a forum. I do have a wonderful young man building the site for me and he is the one who is doing the coding and the actual building of the site but I am doing what I can to learn how to work everything.
I have a few questions.
1. How would I be able to assign subscribers to two different groups? I would like to know how to see these subscribers with certain titles, if that is the correct name, or badges?
The Groups that I have set up are: Guests, Members, Moderators, Guild Members and Admins
We would like some of our Moderators to show as Guild Members
We would like some of our Members to be Guild Members
I as an admin would also like to be seen as a Guild Member
I am still learning how to title and badge the groups so any help would be appreciated.
The next question I have is about the editing or reply box. I like the way your Reply box looks here on this site. How would I change ours to the way your looks? I would probably like the way our looks better if I could make it larger. I can barely see the little editing icons or text as I am typing.
Also, in regard to this topic. I don't see a way to change the size of the text in my post. I know it must be there, but I am not seeing it. 
Also, I am not seeing the LOCK tool in the little editing tool box. How am I able to 'lock' a topic?
Last question on this topic, what is the kitchen sink? 
Thank you so much for your help.
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I suspect you are getting confused between user groups and forum ranks. User Groups are first and foremost for the control of access to the forums - determining who can do and see what. For an explanation of those I would suggest a visit to our codex and a read through of the brief 'Getting Started' section.
Whereas it sounds like 'Guild members' is more of a Special Rank where individuals - regardless of their user group membership - can be placed to all share a common name, badge and 'status'. But I would get the User Groups sorted first.
As to the editor I have no idea, of course, what it looks like on your site so not sure I can advise on that one. This site uses our TinyMCE editor plugin if that is any help...
Text in the post..? Do you mean during editing or when displayed as these are controlled by different CSS rules?
The 'Lock Topic' tool IS in the tools popup but remember it is in the topic level tools (forum view - list of topics) NOT the post level toolbox (topic view).
'Kitchen Sink' is what WordPress calls the second row of toolbar buttons - i.e., extra features in the editor. Our TinyMCE plugin uses the same version as is used to write your blog posts hence the same names and tooltips. I don't think much of the name - rather childish I think - but we have to live with it!
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Well, gosh! You have been so helpful Yellow Swordfish! Thank you!
You were exactly correct that I was confusing the groups and ranks. I didn't need to add a Guild Member Group. I just need to be able to rank them.
As far as the editor goes, it sounds like that is a job for my wonderful web builder fellow.
Thank you so much for taking the time to help with these questions. You rock!!
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Well, I thought I had figured this out but now I am stuck again.
I was able to figure out how to have the Rank for Guild Members and Moderators but I am not able to figure out how to have the ranks for Moderator and Member and Guild Member and Member.
I have a photo that I hope will help. In the picture, Kaleb is shown as a Moderator but since he is not a Guild Member, he should also show the member rank badge. Jason, the person above Kaleb is only a Member. He is not a Mod or a Guild Member.
I checked the Member List for the Member Group and Kaleb is listed there as a Member.
Thank you for your help.
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I also have found that Kameryn, who is listed below Kaleb in the picture, should have a Guild Member Rank as well as a Member Rank. Why are some of these not showing but some are?
I double checked and Kameryn does show as a Guild Member and Kaleb shows as a Member as well as a Moderator. I have tried and tried to figure out why so many of these are not working correctly.
I have some who are showing as Guild members but not members and some that show as Guild Member but not both and also, like Kaleb, showing up as Member but not Moderator?
Any ideas? Thanks for the help.
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you have confused me... sorry...
are you trying to display ranks, special ranks or usergroup badges?
ranks are based on number of posts... special ranks are based on simple assignment to the special rank... and usergroups are based on assignment to a usergroup...
you can also give any of the three a badge... just edit the rank, special rank or usergroup and pick the badge you want to use...
if a use has a rank and special rank, are you display one or both? what about titles and badges?
for more info, see:
http://codex.simple-press.com/.....xuserrank/
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The Member Rank Badge, the badge with the gold stars is for just regular members.
I included a screen shot of Kaleb listed under Users and it shows he is a Member there, as well as a Moderator.
Kaleb should be showing a Member Rank Badge but he is not. Any ideas?
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not sure what that image is showing me... its in the admin... badges wont be shown there...
and confused by what you are expecting... a member has special rank and forum rank? and just showing the special rank? did you see the first link I posted? by default the forum rank is hidden if you have a special rank... but the hideIfSpecialRank argument allows you to change that behaviour...
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LOL Well... those links look like Greek to me. I think I just needed someone to say... You can't have two badges unless you code it to say so. LOL
Sorry that I am not very good at the coding lingo. I am trying to do some of the things on the site to learn how it works and I get lost when coding speak is spoken.
I do understand now. Thank you for helping me. I will give this info to the guy who is doing the coding part.
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