Welcome to my first blog, it's about how to use Groupmanager.

Groupmanager is a permissions plugin from the makers of Essentials, you can download it here.
The idea is very simple, you make different permissions packages and assign them to groups.
First we'll look at globalgroup.yml, open it with Notepad++.
Everything in that file might seem confusing, that's why you can Ctrl-A -> Delete everything in that file.
We will start a complete new file, first decide which group you want and what permissions they should get.
Next make a permissionsgroup by typing this:

g:member:
permissions:
-

Dispite of what the old layout led you believe, the permissions do not have to be grouped by mod.
You can make things easier and cleaner by dropping all the permissions you want into a single group.

Once you created all the groups you want, it's time to make actual groups that will work on the server, for that, you need to access the groups.yml. Located in Groupmanager --> worlds --> .
It should look something like this:

1 Member:
2 default: true
3 permissions: []
4 inheritance
- g:member
info:
5 prefix: '&f[&eMember&f]'
6 build: true
7 suffix: ''

Let's break it down and see what everything does.
1. On the first line is the name of the group, this is what you have to type in commands to assign people that group.
2. If the second line is 'true' then all players who first join the server will be assigned with this group.
3. permissions, you can add world/group-specific permissions here, we won't use that in this tutorial.
4. inheritance, here you add the globalgroups you made, in this case, the 'member' group.
5. This is what appears in front of your player's name.
6. Can this group build or not?
7. This appears after your user's name, nobody ever uses this.

Make a group setup for every rank you want on the server, assign the permissions group to it and you're done!
These are two examples I build:
globalgroups
groups