Profile Options

The Forum ☛ Profiles ☛ Profile Options administration panel is where you control how the Forum Profile works. You can specify variations of User Names, allow profile photos, control what the website link does, control what the profile link does and even integrate the SPF Profile with another 3rd party WP plugin.

Display Name Format

In most instances, allowing the user to create their own display name would be favoured but in special circumstances you can choose to force display names to be either the same as the users login or a combination of their first name and last name.

Profile Link

Select what you choose to be the link to a users profile record. Link it to their name, their avatar or an icon in the post icon strip above posts.

Website Link

Select what you choose to be the link to a users website. Link it to their name, their avatar or an icon in the post icon strip above posts.

Personal Photos

You may allow a user to place links to photos in their profile display. These will be displayed along the top of the profile before the data section.

Note: These are not currently displayed on the popup profile display – only on the page option.

Enter a maximum number here and also the width to display them at (in pixels).

Signature Image Size

If you have enabled signatures via permissions, this option will allow you to limit the size of any signature images. Enter the maximum width and height into the input fields. If you do not wish to limit the size of image signatures, enter a value of zero for width and height. You can limit the width or height independently of each other.

First Form Visit

Select whether a new user should be directed to the profile page on their very first visit to the forum.

You may also choose to force a password change on this first visit. (Note: It is possible for a user to ignore this but they will receive a warning message).

Display Profile Mode

Select how the profile should be displayed. This can be within a popup window (which will not show photos) or to a separate page.

You can also elect to link to a different, custom page altogether. If you do this then you must provide both the URL and the name of a query variable to send the users ID in.

Finally, if selecting the forum page option, you can choose whether to ‘wrap’ the profile display within the forum header (login, breadcrumbs, search bar etc) and forum footer (search and statistics) or whether to only show the profile data alone.

Profile Entry Form Mode

Select how the profile form should be displayed. This can be a forum generated page or the WordPress admin profile page.

You can also elect to link to a different page altogether. if you do this then you must provide both the URL and the name of a query variable to send the users ID in.

Finally, if selecting the separate page option, you can choose whether to ‘wrap’ the profile form within the forum header (login, breadcrumbs, search bar etc) and forum footer (search and statistics) or whether to only show the profile form alone.

Custom Profile Message

Text you enter here will be displayed to the User on their profile edit page.