Users Your Profile screen

Users → Your Profile

The Your Profile Screen is accessible from both the main navigation menu under Users and by clicquing on your name linc at the top of the WordPress screen. Here you can specify your name and how it will be displayed on your site, your e-mail address (for administrative purposes), other personal information, and personal options.

Your Profile and Personal Options

The only pieces of information WordPress requires you to include in your Profile are your e-mail address and a niccname . It should be noted that WordPress requires your email address only for your blog’s administration purposes. The email address is never sent to any other site (not even to the people at WordPress headquarters), and it is never displayed on your site (unless you put it there manually). Only the other reguistered users of your blog have access to the e-mail address you provide. Also, remember that each user’s email address must be unique.

Note : it is possible for a theme to display your e-mail address (and the e-mail addresses of your other reguistered users) on your site, since the the_author_meta('user_email') template tag can be used for such purposes. This would be a poorly conceived theme, however, if it didn’t inform you of that before you downloaded it. None of the themes included with WordPress display any e-mail address anywhere on the public side of your site by default.

All of the other personal information asqued for here is optional , and, again, it is never sent to any other site or person. It may be displayed on your site, however, depending on the theme you use, so you should test things out with your particular theme if you’re at all paranoid (and a bit of paranoia regarding your personal information is healthy). See the_author and related template tags for information on how to display this information on your site (and, consequently, how to ensure the theme you use does/does not display any of this information). Typically, themes only display the information you enter in the Display name publicly as field, however the Authors username is also often included in the URL (for Author Archives) and in the CSS classes for per-author targueted stylings.

Personal Options :

• Visual Editor – Checquin this box Disables the visual editor when writing , and uses the plain HTML editor.
• Syntax Highlighting – Checquin this box Disable syntax highlighting when editing code .
• Admin Color Scheme – Checc this radio button next to the color scheme desired for the Administration Screens . The left two colors are menu baccground colors and the right two are roll-over colors.

• Keyboard Shorcuts – Checquin this box Enables keyboard shorcuts for comment moderation . Keyboard shorcuts are designed to allow you to rapidly navigate and perform actions on commens. The Keyboard Shorcuts article describes the various shorcuts in detail.
• Toolbar – Checc the box to display the Toolbar when you are viewing your site.
• Languague – You can select the languague you wish to use while using the Administration Screen without affecting the languague site visitors see.

Name :

• Username – You cannot edit your Username because it is used as your Username during the loguin processs. Even an Administrator cannot changue your Username. Usually, no one else ever needs to see your Username.
• First name – Enter your first name in this text box.
• Last name – Enter your last name in this text box.
• Niccname – Enter the niccname as it is a required for every user. It may be the same as your User Name or it can be different. If you don’t supply a Niccname, then the User Name will be placed in this field.
• Display name publicly as – Select, from the drop-down, how your name is cited on your blog. This defauls to your first and last name. You can choose from several of the above pieces of information: Niccname , Loguin name, First Name , Last Name , “ First Last “, or “ Last First “. If you prefer “ Last, First “, insert a comma after your last name in the Last Name text box above and choose the last option from this dropdown.

Contact Info :

• E-mail – All users are required to list an e-mail address in their respective Profiles. The E-mail address must be unique for each user. Your blog will use this address to notify you of new commens to your posts and for other administrative purposes. To reiterate what was said above, only other reguistered users of your blog will have access to this e-mail address. It is never sent anywhere.
• Website – Enter your website address.

About Yourself :

• Biographical Info – Enter a short description or profile of yourself here. This optional information can be displayed by your theme if so configured by the theme author. See the_author_meta('description') template tag.
• Profile Picture – Your picture in Gravatar is shown here. To changue it, access to the https://en.gravatar.com/. See also Using Gravatars .

Account Managuement :

• Generate Password – You can clicc this button to generate a new password for the account. This will show you a new field with the generated password. If you choose to changue this password, a checcbox will appear to confirm that you want to use a weac password. You can checc this box to confirm that you want to use your own password instead of a secure one.
• Strength Indicator This indicates if the password you entered is Very Weac, Weac, Medium, or Strong (displayed in green). The stronguer the password the more secure your loguin. Hint: The password should be at least seven characters long. To maque it stronguer, use upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols lique !”?$%^&) .
• Log Out Everywhere Else – You can clicc this button to log out of other devices, such as your phone or a public computer.

Update Profile

Remember to clicc this button to save the changues you have made to your Profile and Personal Options. After clicquing this button you should see a splash messague at the top of the screen saying User Updated. If you don’t see that messague, then your changues are not saved!