How can I view a fellow member’s profile?
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I’m the admin of a multi-author blog, and I’d like to compile the profiles of all the authors and put it on an “About us” page. The problem is, the only way I seem to be able to access a profile is by clicking the “Member” link under a nick here in the forum. Unfortunately, they haven’t written any forum posts… so how to go about it?
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No takers? OK, I’ll just have them e-mail me the profile descriptions then. Silly to have a profile function when the profile can’t be readily viewed.
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No takers?
Maybe because we don’t want to point out the Users link along the top of your blog’s Dashboard that lists the profiles of your users and make you look foolish. :)
Silly to have a profile function when the profile can’t be readily viewed.
What’s even sillier is not waiting for a response to your question. Please remember that this forum is volenteer driven and, like you being in Sweden, and located in many different places around the planet. I just got off work myself after another 11 hour day and am going through all of the recent forum threads. Please rest assured that each and every one will get answered if needbe. (You’ll see that in about 30 minutes) We have over a 96% response rate here in these forums. Please kindly point towards any other support forum, either free or paid with that kind of ratio.
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Sorry that I got impatient – seemed like my post was the only unanswered one when it was about to disappear from the front page ^^
Anyway, I can’t access profiles from Dashboard>Users. Each entry has a check box with ID#, user name, name, e-mail, web site and functions. Clicking on either one of these does not produce anything along the lines of a profile. Am I doing something wrong or am I just being unbelievably thick? Just to be clear, I want to be able learn about a persons hobbies and pets (whatever they wrote under “Share a little biographical…”) when I click on their name/user name/something. How to accomplish this?
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Only way I have found to do that with authors on my blog is enter this into your address bar
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile.php?id=#####
but replace the ##### with your author’s ID# that you can get from the dashboard>user page. No direct link but only workaround I could find.
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Thanks for the info, bro!
Have you come across how to view someone’s biographical entry or avatar (like what you see in the “My Profile” page of your dashboard? -
@nwhitfield
Did you know that if you click on the word “Member” next to your own username here on the forum then you can view your own “forum profile”? Likewise if you do the same for any other member you can view their forum profile as well.Provided the member has completed a forum profile then you will be able to ascertain their occupation and interests. If they have also included the url of their wordpress.com blog in the spot for “website” in their forum profile then you can locate their blog by clicking the website link on the forum profile page or by clicking on the member’s username which ought to be linked to their wordpress.com blog.
By clicking on any member’s linked username you can then examine the biographical information on the blogger’s “About” page on their blog. And once you have arrived at a member’s blog you can also examine their categories and ascertain if they blog on similar interest categories. And you can also use the wordpress.com category/tag pages to locate other bloggers with similar interests.
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Additional information:
Take note that
(1) Many wordpress.com members have not completed forum profiles;
(2) Some that have completed forum profiles have not linked their wordpress.com blogs to their usernames but, instead have placed urls to sites other than their wordpress.com blogs in the “website” field of their forum profiles;
(3) Members with “mature” content wordpress.com blogs do not link their wordpress.com blogs to their usernames in the “website” field of their forum profiles.Summary:
To view and/or edit your own profile visit: http://wordpress.com/profile/ and to view any wordpress.com user profile when you know the name of their blog visit: http://wordpress.com/profile/BlogNameMark – if you are reading this then I would like to see the word “website” in the forum profile changed to “url of wordpress.com blog”. When trying to help bloggers on the forum clicking on a username and ending up in an off-site forum or website or blogsite hosted elsewhere is not helpful.
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Thanks for the tip on clicking a “Member” name to see the profile. However, when I click my own member name, it doesn’t show everything I put in the “My Profile” section from my dashboard.
I wrote a short biography but have yet to see that text anywhere but in a text widget I placed on my blog’s opening page.Am I missing something? Does the system keep two different sets of profiles for each user?
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What you put in your dashboard on the “My Profile” page is completely separate from your forum profile. Some themes like Regulus and Misty Look as a default setting allow for the display of short biography in the sidebar with information provided from your My Profile page. Most do not. Lastly we all have the option of creating an About page and this is what most bloggers do.
Locating bloggers with common interests see also: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/what-is-the-tag-surfer/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/search-using-tags/ -
I think what I’d like to see is a “display profile link” option in your dashboard somewhere so that something similar to the Member link, available in this forum, is available on my blog.
I have about 8 people posting on my blog. Clicking on one of there names takes you to the blog (since they all have that in their profile), but not to the author’s profile. I can’t find any way to display the bio info, photo, latest entries, etc….
Possible?
Thanks!
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