Global Admin Options

The Forum ☛ Admins ☛ Global Options administration panel is where you set global options for all Admins. Among the options you can set control the Admin Bar, the New Posts Queue and the enabling of the Edit Tools. You can also control what data Simple:Press Forum displays in the WordPress dashboard. These admin options apply globally to all Administrators.

Global Admin Options

Use the Admins New Post Queue

The Admins ‘New Post Queue’ retains a link to every topic with new post(s) that a forum Admin has not read or at least visited. This includes posts awaiting moderation.

If you have no need for the primary forum Admin to check ALL posts personally, then this option should be disabled. Leaving it on but not visiting the new posts can result in a large backlog of links being recorded and a slowdown of the system. Note that turning off the automatic queue should also be accompanied by allowing all users to bypass moderation in the permission sets.

Force Queue Removal From Admins Bar Only

Under normal circumstances, a new post will be removed from the Admins Queue when viewed or explicitly marked as read from the Admins Bar drop down. Turning on this option will remove the former method so that even viewed new posts remain in the queue and all new posts will ONLY be removed from the queue by use of the Admins Bar drop down.

Allow Moderators to View/Remove New Posts

When a new post is viewed by an Admin, it is removed from the Admins queue of unread posts. By default items are only removed from the queue when viewed by an Admin. Turning on this option allows users with Moderator status to also view and remove items form the queue.

Include Posts by Moderators in list

This option determines whether posts made by approved moderators are placed in the Admins unread posts queue.

Display Edit Tool Icons

The EditTool Icons are a set of tools available to an Admin during the display of topics and posts. They appear to the right of each topic/post and allow an users to perform the following tasks:

Topics:

• Lock the Topic.
• Pin the Topic (to the top).
• Edit the Topic Name and Slug.
• Change Topic Status.
• Change the Sort Order.
• Delete the Topic.
• Move the Topic to another Forum.
• Break a Blog Post/Topic Link.
• Topic Properties.

Posts:

• Approve a post in Moderation.
• Display the Post authors Email address.
• Pin the Post (to the top).
• Edit the Post.
• Delete the Post.
• Move Post to New Topic.
• Post Properties.

If these tools are turned off in the options panel, there is a toggle icon displayed on the Admin Bar that enables them to be turned on without having to visit these options.

Dashboard Options

You can choose to have the WP Dashboard display a ‘Forum’ section containing a list of new, unread posts and/or the latest forum statistics. Turning both options off will effectively remove the dashboard forum section.