This article demonstrates, how to make a profile private in the WordPress group using a simple WordPress profile privacy setting.
Profile privacy is a crucial part of every user or community-based website. It helps you to protect the private information of a group member from the users who are not a member of the group.
And ProfileGrid Memberships comes with a ‘Private Profile’ setting that allows you to regulate the privacy of profiles in the groups.
For example, suppose you are a dentist and have a community-based website for your patients.
With the Private Profile setting, you can prevent all the patients from exploring the details of each other.
Similarly, the ProfileGrid’s Private Profile setting allows you to restrict the access of other users.
Two Settings of ProfileGrid Private Profile
ProfileGrid Memberships is a WordPress plugin for user profile management and has an inbuilt setting that allows you to regulate the privacy of user profiles in WordPress groups. You can hide or display user profiles on WordPress. The two settings that you can set with this setting are:
- Hide Group Members from Other Users: All the group member profiles in the group will be hidden from the other users. Only respective users will be able to see their own profiles.
- Show Group Members Without Profile Links: All the group member profiles will be displayed in the group but other users won’t be able to click and explore the profiles.
How to make profile private using ProfileGrid Private Profile Setting?
To make a user profile in WordPress private, first, you need to download and install the ProfileGrid Membership plugin.
Once the plugin is downloaded and installed follow the steps give below:
Step1: Go to ProfileGrid left Menu on your WordPress Dashboard.
Step2: Next click on ‘Global Settings’ and go to the Global Setting page.
Step3: Scroll down and click ‘Private Profile.’
Step4: In the WordPress Private Profile setting, enable the toggle to make all WordPress frontend user profiles private.
Step5: Once you enable the toggle you’ll get a text box to enter the message that you want to display if any user tries to explore other profiles.
Step6: The ‘Display Profile Cards on Group Pages’ toggle allows you to display group member profile cards but the links from the profiles will be removed.
Step7: Enable the ‘Display Profile Cards on Group Pages’ toggle to display the cards.
Step8: Once you configure all the settings, make sure to save them.
Frontend Group profiles with two type of privacy settings
This is how your frontend groups look when you enable WordPress Private Profile Mode on ProfileGrid Private Profile Setting:
Further, this is how your frontend groups will look if you enable ‘Display Profile Cards on Group Pages toggle:
You can use both the settings and change the display message according to your needs.
Closing Note
This guide on how to make a profile private will help you to set limits on access to profile information. In addition to that, you can display user profiles in WordPress groups without giving access to the profile link.
You can also explore other features and settings of this user profile plugin here. ProfileGrid Memberships is not only the best WordPress user profile plugin but also is a complete solution for your community-based or membership website.
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