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The personal has a “member” template group, correct? So, when I upgrade, will this automatically be included in the EE install or will I have to manually add the template group?

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As far as I know, when you upgrade, those templates are added automatically—it would be rather silly if it didn’t, wouldn’t it?

To be a bit more specific:  There’s not a member template group, per se, in that in your list of template groups under the template tab in the control panel, there’s no “member group.”  Instead, inside the member module, which is installed with the personal version of EE, there’s a bunch of member templates.  THOSE templates are the “member templates” that you have to edit.  There’s something similar for the Forum module as well.  So, in other words, you have to look in a few places for the specialty templates such as the member templates (inside the member module, specifically), or the forum templates are inside the forum module, etc. 

Hope that helps!

It’s not a template group, actually, it’s just a “catch word”, to to speak, much like “forum” or “category”. So, to answer your question: Neither, nor.

Got it, thanks!

As far as I know, when you upgrade, those templates are added automatically—it would be rather silly if it didn’t, wouldn’t it?

To be a bit more specific:  There’s not a member template group, per se, in that in your list of template groups under the template tab in the control panel, there’s no “member group.”  Instead, inside the member module, which is installed with the personal version of EE, there’s a bunch of member templates.  THOSE templates are the “member templates” that you have to edit.  There’s something similar for the Forum module as well.  So, in other words, you have to look in a few places for the specialty templates such as the member templates (inside the member module, specifically), or the forum templates are inside the forum module, etc. 

Hope that helps!

So…the member feature is actually a *module*, with specialty templates?

The member module is, well, yes, a module. And yes, the member templates are not quite as straightforward to edit as the other, regular, EE templates.

So…the member feature is actually a *module*, with specialty templates?

Yep!  In fact, much of EE’s power is from modules—the weblog:entries tag is actually a module as well.  And it’s practically the core of EE.  So the member feature is a module as well…. though a pretty integreted one, to be sure.

Yep- it’s very heavily integrated.  Check the docs for the member module features- it relies on the member profile templates for frontend display of the member area.  Most regular members will never access the control panel- instead, they’ll access a member profile area like the one you’d use here when you click ‘Control Panel’ up in the top right.

Yep- it’s very heavily integrated.  Check the docs for the member module features- it relies on the member profile templates for frontend display of the member area.  Most regular members will never access the control panel- instead, they’ll access a member profile area like the one you’d use here when you click ‘Control Panel’ up in the top right.

Thanks, the link helped a lot. But, I’d like to point out something, access-wise

{exp:member:login_form return="site/index"}

<label>Username</label>

<input type="text" name="username" value="" maxlength="32" class="input" size="25" />

<label>Password</label>

<input type="password" name="password" value="" maxlength="32" class="input" size="25" />

{if auto_login}
<input class='checkbox' type='checkbox' name='auto_login' value='1' /> Auto-login on future visits
{/if}

The labels should have a “for” attribute to the ID of the appropriate input; so here’s the appropriate code…it helps with screenreaders, ya know. 😉

{exp:member:login_form return="site/index"}

<label for="username">Username</label>

<input type="text" id="username" name="username" value="" maxlength="32" class="input" size="25" />

<label for="password">Password</label>

<input type="password" id="password" name="password" value="" maxlength="32" class="input" size="25" />

{if auto_login}
<input class='checkbox' type='checkbox' name='auto_login' value='1' id="auto_login"/><label for="auto_login">Auto-login on future visits</label>
{/if}

bobby

😉  I am not loved for my presentation skills- but I’ll make a note for the folks who are.  Thanks for the ‘heads up’ on it- the crew is keen on the details.

People call me the Accessibility A…. for a reason don’t you know? 😉

Mod Edit: Edited for Language.