ProfileGrid allows you to customize its look and feel using its dedicated template files. Editing these files will require you to have some knowledge of HTML, CSS and PHP code. So if you know how to tinker with the code, you can get the exact look that you want for your ProfileGrid interface. This will make it unique and stand out from the rest.
Let us move forward and see what steps we need to follow to create our own ProfileGrid template.
Locating the Plugin’s Root Directory
First of all, you need to access the files on your website. There are many tools available to access your site files, so choose whichever one you like the most. Then, access the ‘wp-content‘ directory of your WordPress site. Inside ‘wp-content‘, there will be the ‘plugins‘ directory. Inside ‘plugins‘, look for the directory ‘profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities‘. This is the root directory of the ProfileGrid plugin.
Finding & Copying the Template Files
From the plugin’s root directory, copy the directory ‘default‘ that is inside ‘[plugin root]/public/partials/themes‘. This ‘default‘ directory contains all the default PHP template files for ProfileGrid’s frontend layouts. Once you have copied this directory, paste it into ‘[your current theme directory]/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/themes‘ directory. If this directory doesn’t exist already, you can create it.
Important: Don’t forget to rename the pasted directory from ‘default‘ to the name of your choice. This will ensure that you see the template by its proper name in ProfileGrid backend once you get to select it.
You can now edit the code in these files to set the design according to your liking.
Activating the Custom Template
Now that you are done editing the code in the files, all you need to do is to activate the custom template from the ProfileGrid backend. To do that, login to your WordPress Dashboard and hover over the ‘ProfileGrid‘ Dashboard menu. This will reveal the complete list of menus under ‘ProfileGrid‘. Click on ‘Global Settings‘ menu to access the Global Settings page of ProfileGrid. Inside Global Settings, click on ‘General‘ settings icon.
‘General‘ settings contain the option to select the template. Your new template’s name will appear in the dropdown next to the ‘Template‘ option. Select it and save the changes. Your new ProfileGrid template design will now appear on the site frontend.
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Please answer some previous questions.
1. How to pre-set User Blog security for “Content accessible only to me”, for example. Or how to make my own post template without image, comments, tags and containing custom fields.
2. How to prevent automatic deletion of account. Instead I want to force you to fill out a form that forwards an email to the Administrator who will have the opportunity to rollback as it is a membership site.
3. How to enable “User Blog” for specific group only.
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1) Blog privacy cannot be preset to “Content accessible only to me”. You may enable the content privacy for blog posts by referring to the following steps:
i) Login to WordPress dashboard and go to “ProfileGrid >> Global Settings >> User Blogs” menu.
ii) Enable the option “Enable content Privacy” and save it.
Once you enable this, users may configure the privacy for their blog posts.
2) You may restrict users to delete their own account by referring to the following steps:
i) Login to WordPress dashboard, and go to “ProfileGrid >> Global Settings >> User Accounts” menu.
ii) Disable the option “Allow Profile Deletion” and save it.
3) Currently, ProfileGrid does not have feature to enable/disable the user blog for specific group. You may either enable or disable it for all users as of now.
Hello again,
1. How can the user himself decide / toggle on the visibility of a profile field? Ex: face link
2. Is it possible to have grouped subsections? If not, is there a forecast?
Hi,
We have tried the said steps but it didn’t work out, or maybe I have done it incorrectly but as far as I know, I did it as per the instruction above.
My name is Jonath maintaining my own site. We just want to use our (theme part) to be our profile page for our users. “models” tab is a part of our theme. after they register from our form. they will be redirected to create “new profile” on the “models” tab.
How can we use this as our standard template?
thanks
If a user registers with ProfileGrid registration form and login to the site, they may be redirected to a profile page containing the tab. If this is not what you are looking for, please raise a ticket on our support portal as we may require further details.
Please help. I do not see a place to choose my template in this “General” section.
Hi,
If you have created the template correctly, you will find the template in the ProfileGrid >> Global settings >> Profile Template.
Hi there, nice plugin!!
Would it be possible to create a new profile template and show it via URL parameter or another way like a kind of shortcode or even a piece of code in a child theme?
It would be usefull to keep the “default” profile active while developing a new one.
Thanks in advance!
Mario
Hi,
Thank you for writing to us.
As of now, the feature is not available. Only one profile can be active at a time. We have noted and forwarded this to our development team to review and add this feature in one of our future releases.
Thank you,
Is there an integration that allows a new profile template to be created using Elementor?
You may use the different shortcodes provided by the plugin to create a elementor template.