How do I change a user from member to admin

[PA-Woodchuck]

How do I change a user from member to admin status? Sorry for asking for help but I had a stroke a few years ago and got some "dead" brain cell most tasks are challenging.

[Adriano Faria]

You can either:

• Go to their ACP profile and change the group
• Go to ACP -> Members -> Administrator and add the user as Administrator.

Remember that ADMINISTRATOR on IPS4 is the user who can perform actions on ACP only. A user can be an adminstrator and has absolutely no moderator rights on front end. For the front end, you should as the user as MODERATOR.

[PA-Woodchuck]

If I did it correctly I added the member to moderator and admin. Did notice their profile shows them as "members". IS this ok. I reason I did this because of due to my health issues I want another person to keep a lookout

[Adriano Faria]

Just now, PA-Woodchuck said:

Did notice their profile shows them as "members". IS this ok.

That's what I told you: you can give someone admin or mod rights and still be a user in MEMBERS group.

[CoffeeCake]

@PA-Woodchuck, you probably want to change the  primary group.  Open the profile in the administrator control panel by searching for the member's username, clicking into the member, and clicking the edit button in the group section:

From there, select administrators to give full administrative access to your site, and click save (assuming you're using the built in names for your administrator group):

This will have the effect of changing the title you see under a person's name on the public facing areas of the site from "Members" to "Administrators."

I believe the way you did it will still grant the person administrative permissions, yet they will not display as an administrator as only the primary usergroup title is shown.

Edited June 30, 2020 by Paul E.