Introduction
This guide will help you through the process of modify guild site administrators.
Benefits
You can have members from your guild have admin permissions to help with features of the site without giving all the permissions to their rank.
You can have people not from your guild be able to help admin your guild site without having to have them on your roster.
Did you know?
If you give someone full admin permissions they can add/revoke other admins including you.
Getting Started
This is identical to setting up Custom Groups, as the Administration group is a custom group. The group is call Site Creator by default and is add upon creating the site. The individual who creates the site will be defaulted to this group as well so that they may admin the site.
Go to the Control Panel, and under Membership go to User Groups.
You cannot add characters to a custom group unless the character has been claimed by an account. The person will not have access to the permissions given to their character if the character is not verified or guild verified.
Back To TopCustom User Groups
You will see User Groups (based on your in-game ranks) and Custom User Groups. By default there should be a Site Creator Group. This group by default has full admin permissions. You can rename this group if you would like.
You can also create different admin groups if you want to give members only access to admin forums or the calendar without giving them full admin access to the entire site. You will just need to create a new Custom User Group and apply the proper permissions.
Back To TopAdding/Removing Admins
To the right of the group you will see Edit Permissions and Add, View, Remove Members (#). The Edit Permissions is where you go to add or remove permissions for that group.
So if you only want them to admin forums you will need to set the permissions as such.
Add, View, Remove Members (#) is where you go to add or remove individuals as admins. To add them simply type in their character's name into the field. This will pull up a list of all the characters with that name. So make sure you know race and class. Once you select the character the field will display realm and region as well. For example: Snigglepoo@Dragonblight@us will be the Warrior Gnome Snigglepoo.
If you want to remove an admin simple open the Add, View, Remove Members (#) look for the character you want to remove and click the
next to the character.
Since WowStead believes that the site belongs to the guild as a whole and not an individual person any administrator with the permissions to Manage Site Roles can remove or add other admins. This means that the individual who created the site does not have to "hand over" or give passwords or logins to other admins. If you no longer want to be an admin you will just need to add the new admin to the admin group and have yourself removed.
Back To TopDon't have Permissions
If someone with admin permissions has begun to do malicious things to your site and removed all admin permissions. Your guild leader will need to contact tech support to regain their admin permissions. Once they have their permissions they can then reassign permissions to other members.
If you loose your access and had just created the site make sure you have also verified your character.
If you need help trouble-shooting loss of Admin permissions please read through this first.
Remember that if you are not the Guild Leader, for security reasons, you will not be given admin permissions to a guild site by WowStead Administration. You will need to contact your guild leader or a current site admin to give you the permissions.
Did you know?
If you are not the guild leader WowStead Admins cannot give you admin permissions to the guild site. You will need to go through your Guild Leader or Current Admin.