Choose who can sign up, who gets a public profile, and the other options in User Accounts on Admin Dashboard → Settings → General.
Open User Accounts
- Open the Admin Dashboard.
- Select Settings.
- Stay on General.
- Open User Accounts.
- Change the controls you need.
- Select Save Settings at the bottom of the page, then confirm.
One save applies to every section on General, not only User Accounts. You should see a confirmation that the settings were saved.
Note: Direct message choices sit in the General Settings section on the same page. Follow General settings.
Note: If you do not see Disable Signup, that control is not on your General page.
Signup
These controls decide who can create an account and what the signup form shows.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Disable Signup | When selected, people cannot create an account, including with single sign-on. The signup page tells them registration is closed. |
| Let users pick chapters on the signup form | Adds a chapter selector to the signup form. Selected chapters are joined once the account is created. Only publicly listed chapters that anyone can join are offered. |
| Minimum chapters to pick on signup | How many chapters a person must pick to finish signing up. 0 leaves the selector optional. Ignored unless the selector is turned on. |
| Maximum chapters to pick on signup | The most chapters one signup may join at once. The starting value is 10. Each chapter joined sends its own welcome email. |
| Blocked email domains | Domains to reject on signup, separated by commas or new lines. Example: gmail.com, yahoo.com. Leave blank to allow every domain. The list can be up to 2000 characters. |
| Signup email field help text | Optional text shown under the email field on the signup form. Example: Enter your work email address. |
How the chapter selector behaves, including which chapters appear and what happens after the account is created, is in Let users join chapters during sign up.
Sign-in and email
These controls change the login page and whether a member can edit their email address.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Disable email address changes | Members cannot change the Email field on their profile or during single sign-on signup. |
| Display single or social sign on options (SSO) above login | When selected, single sign-on buttons appear above the email and password fields on the login page. When cleared, those buttons appear below the login form. |
Public profile pages
These switches decide who can have a profile page. A profile is public by default.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Enable profile pages for all site members | Every active member gets a profile page. Public profiles are visible to anyone, including people who are not signed in. The other profile switches on this page do not remove people once this one is selected. |
| Enable profile pages for team members | A chapter team member whose listing is visible and active gets a profile page. The chapter must be active, visible, and not a test chapter. |
| Enable profile pages for attendees | Someone registered for at least one published, visible event gets a profile page. The event’s chapter must be active, visible, and not a test chapter. |
| Enable profile pages for featured attendees | Someone who asked to be a featured attendee on a published, visible event gets a profile page, whether or not the request was approved. The event’s chapter must be active, visible, and not a test chapter. |
| Enable profile pages for writers | Someone in the Blog Writer group gets a profile page. |
Note: A person can set their own profile to private. That choice overrides these switches. An inactive account does not get a public profile.
OAuth authorization
OAuth authorization role allowlist is a comma-separated list of chapter role names. Only people in one of those roles can approve an OAuth application on the consent screen. Leave the field empty to allow every member. Superusers can always approve an application. The reserved value hq_staff also allows people with staff access.