# Make Admin with Staff Badge

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-admin-with-staff-badge/191654
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 26, 2021, 4:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-admin-with-staff-badge/191654 "2021-05-26T04:50:26Z")
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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-admin-with-staff-badge/191654/3 "2021-05-26T11:28:01Z")

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Hello,

When you grant someone admin they are automatically added to the staff group. You can create a staff badge and then grant it to them. I sure this can be done via sql too?

> [@Grant a badge to individual users manually](https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-a-badge-to-individual-users-manually/29426):
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> bookmark This is a guide for manually granting a custom badge to individual users on Discourse. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator In this guide, you’ll learn how to create and manually grant a custom badge to individual users. A new “Scholar” badge will be created as an example. warning This guide is only applicable for custom badges. To manually grant one of Discourse’s built in badges, you will need to follow: [Bulk Award a badge to a set of users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/award-a-badge-to-a-set-of-users/138694)Create a …

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