1. Create a forum User Group for your moderators(s). We would have created a default ‘Moderators’ group when you installed SP so you could use that. Move your user into that new User Group.
2. Create a forum Permission Set (or decide on one you already have) that gives your new moderator the permissions you want them to have and use.
3. Go to Manage Groups and Forums and on each forum you wish this user to moderate use the ‘View Forum Permissions’ button to then add the User Group/Permission Set combination.

Also, there is a potential bug in setting up moderators that might bite you… you may need to apply the fix here…

Have decided to put member now as third admin,however shows back end of forum but not as admin on bottom of forum.tried everything but he does not show up-any ideas??

have you waited for the sp stats cache to update? check the db, sfmembers table, the admin column for the user in question… is it 0 or 1?

Ah,no I have not-thank you

so is it showing now?

Mr Papa said
have you waited for the sp stats cache to update? check the db, sfmembers table, the admin column for the user in question… is it 0 or 1?

I must be dumb but what do you mean by db and can not find sfmembers,no he is still not showing up at bottom of forum page even tho he can login in as a admin person

your mysql db… the one that wp runs out of… normally would access it via phpmyadmin via server control panel or similar app…

Mr Papa said
your mysql db… the one that wp runs out of… normally would access it via phpmyadmin via server control panel or similar app…

Ok checked that he is 1 in admin coloum

okay, thats good… so stats dont seem to be refreshing…

next step would be to make sure the cron is running… try deactivating and then reactivating simple press plugin… see if shows up..

if not, then try writing a wp blog post and schedule for 15 minutes in the future and see if it appears…

Mr Papa said
okay, thats good… so stats dont seem to be refreshing…

next step would be to make sure the cron is running… try deactivating and then reactivating simple press plugin… see if shows up..

if not, then try writing a wp blog post and schedule for 15 minutes in the future and see if it appears…

Deactivated SimplePress and reactivated,all fixed Admin showing at the bottom of post,great help thank you.

good news! thanks for update….

I added two members as moderators. They are showing in the admin area but not on the front-end.

I tried the two things you mentioned above: deactivate/activate SP and schedule a post 15 minutes in the future.

They’re still not displaying.

My SP forum is a conversion from vbulletin that actually went very cleanly. But if that is a factor… I’m mentioning it.

Thanks for your help.

more than likely that just means your site has a wp cron issue…  please go create a wp blog post and schedule it for the future, like 15 minutes… then wait and see if the post shows on your web site… if not, its a wp issue and you will have to take it up with wp support forums or your host…  if it shows up, come on back and we can dig further…