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Your User Profile at WordPress.com can be accessed via http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/profile.php and contains your basic information, including some global settings for your WordPress.com experience.
Tip: Your user profile can also be quickly accessed in your dashboard via the Users -> Your Profile menu option:
All information contained within your user profile will be active for all blogs owned by that particular user account. The majority of the information here is not used or displayed publicly on WordPress.com. We may launch some features in the future that work more with the information contained within your user profile.
Personal Options
Visual Editor: Check this option if you wish to only use the HTML editor when creating posts and pages. For the hardcore.
Admin Color Scheme: Choose between 2 schemes to use with your WordPress.com dashboard.
Keyboard Shortcuts: You probably didn’t even know you could use these! Please see http://codex.wordpress.org/Keyboard_Shortcuts for more information.
Browser Connection: Use HTTPS when navigating your WordPress.com dashboard.
Interface Language: Set the primary language of your WordPress.com dashboard. To set the language of your actual blog, go to Settings -> General.
Primary Blog: You can choose among all blogs that you currently manage. If you only have one blog, there will be no drop-down menu available.
Name
Username: The username that you chose when you initially registered for WordPress.com. This cannot be changed.
First Name: Not required.
Last Name: Not required.
Nickname: Will be set, by default, to your username unless you change it. Your preferred handle.
Display name publicly as: How you wish to be known around WordPress.com – on your own blog, in comments, etc. The drop-down menu will include the following fields: First name, Nickname, Username, First name Last name, Last name First name. If you do not see these options, make sure that you click Update Profile after completing the fields. Note: in the WordPress.com forums, only your username will be displayed.
Contact Info
E-mail: Required. You may change this, but note that e-mail addresses cannot be shared among accounts. That is, one e-mail address cannot be registered with multiple accounts. You will need to confirm by e-mail when changing this e-mail address. It must be valid!
Although your e-mail address will not be displayed publicly on WordPress.com, when you submit a comment while logged into your account, the e-mail address will be transmitted to the blog’s owner/administrator.
Website: Not required. This is the URL that will be linked to your username when leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Please note that this is stored at the time of the comment, so if you do update this, it will not effect past comments (only those made in the future).
AIM / Yahoo / Jabber / Google Talk: Not required. This information is not used anywhere on WordPress.com.
About Yourself
Biographical Info: Not required. This information is not used anywhere on WordPress.com, although some themes may use it (such as Supposedly Clean). We may implement some features in the future that use this in a more relevant manner. If you want to add this to your blog, feel free to place it in an ‘About’ page or Text Widget.
New Password: Use these fields to change your password. Both fields must match in order for the password to be successfully changed. Please use the “Strength indicator” as a guide when choosing a new password. Your password is your security!
My Gravatar
Your Gravatar is your Globally Recognized Avatar – or the image that will follow you around WordPress.com (and display in forums, blog comments, etc.). You can change your Gravatar at any time by clicking on the Change your Gravatar link, as illustrated above. For more information on the topic – and if you need some help with changing it – please refer to the appropriate documentation.
Video
Watch the “Creating your WordPress.com profile” video from WordPress.tv.
Last modified: January 23, 2009
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