# Running your community — the admin settings

> Where every admin tool in your community lives, who sees it, and which page explains each one.

Source: https://support.estage.com/community-admin-settings
Part of the ESTAGE Support help center (https://support.estage.com). Full knowledge base: https://support.estage.com/llms-full.txt

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Everything you manage in a community — its look, who gets in, what's published, the courses and
lives — is done **inside the community itself**, signed in as its owner or an admin. Genesis only
creates the community and decides [which address it lives on](https://support.estage.com/community-custom-domain). Use this
page as a map: find the tool you need, then follow the link to the page that explains it.

Open your community (in Genesis: **Settings → Overview → Community → Open community ↗**), then choose
**Settings** in the menu under your avatar. The page is headed **Admin** when you have admin rights.

## The settings map

The left-hand menu is grouped into cards.

| Card | Items | Covered on |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Account** | **Profile Settings**, **Security**, **Billing** — your own profile, two-factor sign-in and orders | [Your account in a community](https://support.estage.com/community-your-account) |
| **Community Settings** | **General Settings** | [General settings](https://support.estage.com/community-general-settings) |
| | **Navigation**, **Styles**, **Custom Emojis**, **About Page** | [Look, navigation & about page](https://support.estage.com/community-appearance) |
| | **Private Group Badges**, **Rules** | [Badges, rules & paid access](https://support.estage.com/community-access-rules) |
| | **Levels**, **Point Rewards** | [Levels, points & leaderboards](https://support.estage.com/community-gamification) |
| | **Channels** | [Channels and feed topics](https://support.estage.com/community-channels) |
| **Analytics** | **Overview**, **Growth**, **Content**, **Members** | [Community analytics](https://support.estage.com/community-analytics) |
| **Content** | **Posts Pending Approval**, **Hidden Posts**, **Reported Posts** | [Moderating posts and members](https://support.estage.com/community-moderation) |
| **IPS Management** | Course licences | [Course licences](https://support.estage.com/community-licences) |
| **Add-ons** | **Member Blaze**, **Amplify**, **Mobile App Setup** | [Member Blaze, affiliates & the mobile app](https://support.estage.com/community-add-ons), [Amplify](https://support.estage.com/community-amplify) |
| **People** | **Members**, **Join Requests**, **Roles** | [Members & join requests](https://support.estage.com/community-members), [Roles & permissions](https://support.estage.com/community-roles) |
| **Advanced** | **Custom Scripts / Code**, **Page SEO Settings** | [SEO, custom code & legal pages](https://support.estage.com/community-seo-code-legal) |

> **Note: Missing a card or an item?**
>
> You see a card only if you hold at least one permission inside it, so someone with a
> [role](https://support.estage.com/community-roles) sees a shorter menu than the owner. **Member Blaze** and **Amplify** appear
> only with their subscription.

## Tools that live outside Settings

Some admin controls sit where the content is, not in Settings:

| Where | What you can do | Covered on |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The feed | Pin, edit and remove posts, ban authors, **Manage Widgets**, the **Featured Ad** banner | [Moderating posts](https://support.estage.com/community-moderation), [Look & navigation](https://support.estage.com/community-appearance#sidebar-widgets-and-the-promo-banner) |
| **Courses** | Create courses and challenges, modules, lessons, categories | [Courses](https://support.estage.com/community-courses), [Challenges](https://support.estage.com/community-challenges) |
| **Resources**, **Videos**, **Opportunities** | Add and manage items | [Resources, videos & opportunities](https://support.estage.com/community-library) |
| **Start a Live Event** (**Go Live** in the composer) and **Events** | Go live, run a stage, schedule events, edit replays | [Live streams, stages & events](https://support.estage.com/community-live-events) |
| `/terms` and `/privacy` | Edit the legal pages | [SEO, custom code & legal pages](https://support.estage.com/community-seo-code-legal#terms-and-privacy-pages) |
| A member's profile | Assign a role, block purchases | [Members](https://support.estage.com/community-members), [Moderation](https://support.estage.com/community-moderation#blocking-someone-from-buying) |

## Saving changes

Most settings screens show a bar at the bottom when something has changed: **You have unsaved
changes**, with **Discard** and **Save changes**. Nothing is applied until you save, and what you
save applies to every member straight away.

## Who counts as an admin

- **The owner** — the ESTAGE account that owns the project. Always has every permission.
- **People with a role** — someone you gave a role to, with exactly the permissions that role
  carries. See [Community roles & permissions](https://support.estage.com/community-roles).
- **Moderators from before roles existed** — they still hold full admin access until you give them
  a role.

## What you get notified about

- A push notification when someone's join request is waiting ("Approve request"), and when someone
  asks to join a channel.
- An email when someone confirms their sign-up — see
  [Community emails & notifications](https://support.estage.com/community-email-branding).

## Things worth knowing

- **Direct messages have no admin controls.** Members can block someone or delete a chat
  themselves; admins can't read or remove other people's messages.
- **Billing** under Account is your own orders and subscriptions in this community, not the
  community's revenue.