How to set moderator permissions

Alvin63

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Just setting up a moderator. I did it a couple of years ago and forgot how to do it!

So am I right in thinking that if I set everything to "No" for a moderator "group" - it will take permissions from the registered group. And then I add the additional permisssions by ticking yes to some things? And then setting up permissons for that specific person as well?
 
Yes, permissions are cumulative. In almost all cases, the primary group for a user should be "Registered" and additional groups (or individual permissions) can add or subtract permissions as required.

For setting up a moderator, you can add them in the control panel at Groups & permissions > Moderators (admin.php?moderators/add) and you'll have an opportunity to choose which groups to add them to or which individual moderator permissions to grant them.
 
It's a bit confusing setting moderator permissions in the moderator group. Then setting them again in Moderator control panel. Like doing it twice and not remembering what you set in moderator permissions first!
 
Generally you just would do one or the other, depending on how granular you need them to be. I don't think we set any permissions for the group itself out of the box.
 
Thank you. Just going through them (and generally) - signature text size 1 to 7. What size actually is that? Is one a bigger or smaller size text than 7 and how does that equate to something like 10 point or 12 point that I would normally think of for text size?
 
Yeah you can add them to the group for labeling and other purposes, but set the permissions individually if you like.

Thank you. Just going through them (and generally) - signature text size 1 to 7. What size actually is that? Is one a bigger or smaller size text than 7 and how does that equate to something like 10 point or 12 point that I would normally think of for text size?
Admittedly not the most obvious thing, but they correspond to the drop-down options for text size in the editor. At the time of writing, the range is from 9px to 26px and the default text size is size 4 (15px).
 
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