Your Personal Profile and Settings

We saw earlier how to use the personal menu to log out of Plone, but the personal menu lets you do more:

• set a profile image

• set your full name, email address, home page, location, and short bio

• set your language preference

Use the Personal Menu

The personal menu lets you log out, edit your profile and preferences, and view the site's control panels.

1. Navigate to https://demo.plone.org/ and log in.

2. Click on the personal menu button at the bottom left corner of the page.

   

   The personal menu button

3. A menu appears, the top of which shows your login name.

   

   Your login name

4. To log out, click on the red Logout button.

   

   The Logout button

5. The personal menu will display your profile image, if you have set one.

   

   Your profile image

Setup Your Profile

1. To set a profile image and other profile settings, click Profile

   

   Click to modify your profile

2. You can set your full name.

   

   Set your full name

3. You can set your email address.

   

   Set your email address

4. You can set your home page.

   

   Set your home page

5. You can set your biography, which can be viewed by other users of the site.

   

   Set your biography

6. You can set your location.

   

   Set your location

7. You can set your profile photo by clicking Choose a file or by dragging an image onto the Drop file here to upload a new file target area.

   

   Set your profile photo

8. To save your changes, click the right arrow button.

   

   The right arrow button

9. To discard your changes, click the X button.

   

   The Cancel button

Set Your Language

1. You can set your language preference by clicking Preferences.

   

   Set your language preference

2. You can choose a language from this list.

   

   Click to choose a language

3. For example, click English.

   

   Choose English

4. To save your changes, click the right arrow button.

   

   The right arrow button

5. You will see a "Changes saved" message appear.

   

   The "Changes saved" confirmation message

Site Setup (Control Panels)

1. You can view the site's control panels by clicking on Site Setup.

   

   Click to view Site Setup

   The Site Setup control panels are described in Site Setup and Configuration.