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When I'm Admin, I can't give any user groups to myself anymore?

PP Pieter Jan Pollie
Pieter Jan Pollie
Member

Hello,

I use Simple Press on my website, and I have made all my Community ranks in User Groups with an icon / banner. But I would also like to moderate with the same account ofcourse.

The problem I’m having now… Is if I make myself Admin by giving myself all the permissions, I can’t give myself a User Group anymore? So I can’t give myself the custom Community rank and the moderation power?

What do I need to do to fix this?

 

Also, Is it possible to remove the Administrator / Moderator text underneath your name because I jave my own banners already?

Thanks in advance!

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

I think I follow you…

The first thing to note is that forum Admins do not belong to a user group – actually while it might be possible to do so they really should not belong to a user group. They do not need permissions as they already possess global power!

If you want your forum admin account to have a badge we would use (as we do on this site as it happens) a special rank (forum admin > components > ranking). You can define a special rank, give it a name and a badge and add the admin user(s) to it. That will then display in posts against the admin.

Does that help?

PP Pieter Jan Pollie
Pieter Jan Pollie
Member

Oooh so Special ranks or even for Admins?

 

Because me as Founder and my Admins need the Admin Tag to moderate everything, but I would also like a Badge with Founder and badge with Admin for my admins 🙂

So I dont want the badge for power but for visuals.

 

I’ll try your option and I willl update ASAP!

PP Pieter Jan Pollie
Pieter Jan Pollie
Member

Alright that worked!
If you do not mind, I have another question:

 

 I want to update members rank after xx post.
I’ve set it all up but I’m kinda unsure of it’s right or not, I’ll send a picture and tell me if that’s ok or not 🙂

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

It looks fine to me. Is it giving you problems?

PP Pieter Jan Pollie
Pieter Jan Pollie
Member

Yellow Swordfish said
It looks fine to me. Is it giving you problems?  

Not yet, but I was unsure.

 

But another question about the Special ranks (Sorry if I bother you!)

-> If I make 2 special ranks, then will the 2 ranks share the members?
Example: I make 2 special ranks: Founder & Admin
                Then will all the members of Founder also be in Admin and vice versa?

I would like to make a special rank for Founder, and a special rank for Admin.
But the members might not be the same… What right now is happenning?

 

Thanks in advance!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

A special rank ONLY applies to the members you specifically add to that special rank. You can add as many users to a special rank as you wish and have as many special ranks as you wish. The popup help on the ‘Special Forum Ranks’ section of the admin panel explains in more detail..

PP Pieter Jan Pollie
Pieter Jan Pollie
Member

I found my mistake… Pretty stupid of me

I wanted to remove the “Founder” Underneath the badge

 

 

To do that, I removed the Special rank name, but I also did that by Admin!
So the database saw these 2 as the same rank and gave them the same users!

Is there a possibility to remove the rank name there?

 

Kind Regards!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

We were asked a similar question just last week. Can I ask you to have a quick read of the topic. The question I asked in post 4 is the same one I will ask you….

https://simple-press.com/support-forum/sp5-general-topics/need-some-control-over-member-info-box-at-side-of-each-post/

PP Pieter Jan Pollie
Pieter Jan Pollie
Member

That “Founder” text is from the special rank Founder, it shows the banner + The rank name.

I would like to have the banner only, so I know where it comes from!

If I change the Special rank name to nothing then it’s how I like it! But I can’t have 2 blank special ranks because then the members / banners are messed up 🙂

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Understood, The question is how do you want to do it? The ‘proper’ way or the ‘quick and simple’ way?

PP Pieter Jan Pollie
Pieter Jan Pollie
Member

If it works I’m happy xD

But if it’s too much effort, I dont mind! It’s not the biggest deal!!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Go to the forum admin > thrmes > Custom CSS admin panel.

Enter the following where XXX is equal to the name of your special rank – this needs to be exactly the same and IS case sensiitve:

.spSpecialRank-XXX { display: none; }

and save. Enter this exactly as shown with the starting full-point.

PP Pieter Jan Pollie
Pieter Jan Pollie
Member

That didn’t fixed it. I’ve checked the name 5x! so I’m sre the name is exactly the same (even capitals)
But this is not the biggest problem, ignore this!

 

I have a bigger problem. I’m going to change host, so I need to transfer EVERYTHING of WordPress… I have managed to easily replace everything by the plugin Backup Guard. But I think it’s like the CSS that’s messed up of Simple Press:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you have a solution for that? If not don’t worry, I can fix it by time 🙂

Thanks in advance!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Try the suggestions in this FAQ: http://simple-press.dev/documentation/codex/faq/troubleshooting/my-forum-display-is-unformatted-after-an-update/