Profile edit without access to dashboard?

Hello @danniee

I know that avatars and settings can be a problematic topic for a lot of people. Some people want to have the settings all-together in the backend. Other people use their own profile-management in the frontend. And the third group of people want that I integrate it into the forum-profiles. You see, everyone has another opinion about it and thats why I want to go the WordPress core-way at the moment which means: Adding the stuff to the area where WordPress allows users to change their settings by default, which is the backend-profile area.

Implementing the same logic in multiple different areas just makes not much sense from a redundancy and development perspective. Also think about the stuff which I have to add as well:

– Password change/reset mechanics
– Mail settings
– Display settings

Those are all WordPress default settings which are not provided/coming from my plugin. So there would be a need that I have to re-implement existing WordPress core-logic in my plugin as well which I dont want to do at the moment. Maybe one day WordPress will official provide frontend profiles. In this case I would be make the settings available there for sure.

Thank you for the reply and when you put it that way, I totally agree with you. It is better to use the core functions of WordPress for various reasons, example you remove aplugin and all avatars disappear, instead of it being part of the core function of wordpress.

Thank you for taking the time to explain!