The Ultimate Member Profile Completeness extension is a powerful tool to encourage users to complete their profiles, ensuring a more engaging and filled-out user base on your site. Here’s a summary of its key features:
Key Features:
- Profile Fields Tracking:
- Display incomplete profile fields and a progress bar via sidebar widgets.
- Users can complete profile fields via pop-ups or directly within their profile page.
- Forced Profile Completion:
- Option to enforce profile completion by redirecting users to their edit profile page until they’ve filled out required fields.
- Directory Display Control:
- Display only users with completed profiles in the member directory (configurable by a defined percentage).
- Configuration Flexibility:
- Choose which fields contribute to profile completeness and set the percentage each field contributes.
- Widget Management:
- Widgets disappear upon profile completion, creating a cleaner interface for users.
- Role-Based Customization:
- Set unique fields and requirements for profile completion based on different user roles.
- Flexible Display:
- Display the profile progress bar anywhere on the site using shortcodes.
- Restriction Settings:
- Restrict certain actions until profile completion:
- Prevent commenting on posts until the profile is complete.
- Restrict creation of topics and replies on bbPress forums.
- Limit viewing other user profiles until the profile is complete.
- Restrict certain actions until profile completion:
- Gradual Completion Levels:
- Determine the level of profile completion required to lift restrictions on user activities.
Functionality Overview:
This extension motivates users to complete their profiles by offering visual progress indicators, widgets displaying incomplete fields, and imposing restrictions on certain site actions until profiles are adequately filled out. It allows site admins to control which fields contribute to completion percentages and set the required thresholds for users to gain full access to site features.
By utilizing pop-ups, redirects, and sidebar widgets, this extension actively engages users in the profile completion process, ensuring a more interactive and populated user base. Additionally, it enables tailored configurations for different user roles, granting flexibility and control over profile requirements.
This feature-rich extension serves as an effective tool to enhance user engagement and maintain a site with more complete user profiles, fostering a vibrant community and encouraging user interaction.