Member Management Module Overview
Many of the member management features are integrated into the base system itself, so unlike other modules, the Member Management module is not managed from within the Modules area of the control panel. Instead, its features are found in the following three places:
Note: The ExpressionEngine Core version does not come with the member module, so some of the features described on this page do not apply.
Members and Groups Area
The Admin area of the Control Panel has a dedicated Members and Groups section. Here you'll find a comprehensive suite of member management utilities, including the main Members and Preferences page.
My Account Page
By default, the Control Panel My Account page shows member profile information and preference settings for the person who is logged into the control panel. It will also display information for any member if you choose a particular member from this page:
Admin > Members and Groups > View Members
Site Member Profile Page
The public side of your website also has a Member Profile area, enabling your site members to manage their personal profile information without having access to your Control Panel. Typically, this Member Profile area is found at:
http://www.example.com/index.php/member/profile/
Member Profile Templates
The public profile area has its own set of templates which can be edited to change the look. You'll find the templates located on your server here:
themes/profile_themes/default
These templates can be edited with a text editor, or you may choose to edit them via your Control Panel at this page:
Admin > Members and Groups > Member Profile Templates
Note: In order to edit the templates via the Control Panel requires that you set the file permissions for the template files to 777
A good strategy is to make a copy of the entire default templates folder, then edit your copy so you can leave the default files intact. In your Membership Preferences page you can set your new copy as the site default. The Member Preferences page is located at:
Admin > Members and Groups > Membership Preferences
User Guide Contributions Feed
User Contributed Notes
There’s an alternative to the {name} hack that requires no sacrificing of your Breadcrumb template: the {screen_name} tag.
Errm, for regular templates.
To display the {name} (logged in member’s name) on a custom header in your Member templates to match your website’s global header (as the Member templates don’t support all the Tags from regular EE templates), and you don’t mind sacrificing the “Breadcrumb” template, this will work:
Basically paste your header code into the “Breadcrumb” Member template. It ONLY additionally supports the {name} tag though.
The “Breadcrumb” template is INCLUDED in the “Page Sub-header” template. You can move the “{include:breadcrumb}” referance to the “Page Header” template if necessary as well.
For example, you can now display “Welcome Pie Man!” in the Member Templates.
To run the member templates through the full template engine, you can use {exp:member:manager} , but this is no longer encouraged or supported.
{exp:member:manager} gives you the following tags:
{stylesheet}
{heading}
{breadcrumb}
{content}
{copyright}
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