Profiles

In Profiles, you can set up the following options:

Enable e-mail confirmation;
Disable instructor registration;
Disable instructor pre-moderation;
Add students to own course;
Enable course pre-moderation;
Instructors archive page;
Profile page style;
Cancel subscription page;
Switch on or off the Side Profile Menu (floating menu).

Let’s take a closer look at each option available in the Profiles section.

Enable e-mail confirmation

All new registrations will get an e-mail with account verification. When users proceed with the registration on your website, they will get a confirmation email to complete the registration process and verify the email. Once registered users will be notified that instructions were sent to their emails:

Example of the activation email

Disable instructor registration

When this option turned on - the checkbox "Register as instructor" removed from registration form:

Disable instructor pre-moderation

When this option is enabled the user role "instructor" is set automatically, otherwise, you need to do it manually by changing the user

Instructor can add students to own course

If this option is enabled the instructor will have a tool in an account to add students by email to course. Instructors will be able to add students to their courses right from the profile page. They need to use Add Student option from the menu:

All they need to do is specify the course they want to add a student to and enter the email of this student. After the information is entered, just click Add Students.

Enable course pre-moderation

The course will have Pending status until you (admin) approve(s) it.

Instructors archive page

this page will display all the site’s instructors (so they will be shown on one specific page).

Cancel subscription page

If you want to display a link to the Cancel Subscription page, choose a page and add to page content short-code [pmpro_cancel].

When you switch on this toggle, you can operate with the following options:

make the Profile menu visible or invisible for the guest users (this allows to display a log-in form inside the side profile menu.);
move it to the left or the right side of your window;
choose the background color;
select the text color.