There are various other settings for member profiles within the suite, which can be set up by the administrator, to better suite the needs of any particular site. These settings can be found within the following location of the ACP.
Members -> Member Settings -> Profiles -> Profile Settings
From this location, you can switch on/off various items, and set defaults relating to peoples profiles upon registration.
Profile Settings Page
In this section, you can various options related to profile photos, their defaults, and what you would like to allow the user do do in relation to being able to add them
Photo Settings
This is where you would set what is allowable as a display name on sign up. You can set the length requirements, along with what chars you wish for the users to be able to use. For example, you may wish to restrict to only the A-Z in the alphabet, along with 0-9, hyphens and underscores. You can easily select these from the list provided.
Of course, if you have more complex requirements, you can select the "Use regex" function and enter regex for the display name requirements.
If you wish to stop people using a specific name or term within their display name, you can restrict this from the ban settings page, discussed in the following guide
Display Name Settings
These are a signature that would be placed under your members items of content, when posting in the forum areas. You can choose whether or not to use these on your site. Along with who to show them to
Signature Settings
Here you can set whether or not status updates can be used by your members, along with the default settings. These are small statuses, that you members can use within their profile.
Status Update Settings
While a date of birth is entered on registration, you can choose whether you wish for people to be able to see them on the users profile or not, by default. Settings so this is visible in profiles, will allow it not only in profiles, but also within the calendar and birthday widgets, if set up.
Birthday Settings
These settings allow for the automatic pruning of member information such as displayname history or IP Addresses
Member History Prune Settings
By default the system allows users to ignore other members. This can be ignoring the user altogether, or simply ignoring something like a signature. You can disallow this from the profile settings page here. Note, however, that if you wish to just stop certain members from being ignored, you can do this from the group settings.
Ignoring Members
Group formatting which is set within each group, will be shown only on the group name by default. For example, if you have an 'Administrators' group, which is colored red, then the word 'Administrators' will be colored. If however, you switch to 'Global' then the username itself will be colored, in all areas where the group name is not shown. You can also set what happens when a member clicks an item on your site, as shown in the image below.
Display Settings
Report Guide