Edit Your User Profile

If you're a user and would like to edit your profile:

1. Login at https://www.hastac.org/user/register.
2. Click on my account from the left sidebar if you're not taken there already.
3. Click on the the edit tab beneath your name.
4. You will see a screen showing your main account settings. Make edits to these items.
5. When you're done editing, click the "Save account" button.

These are some the main settings for a user's account.

Account Settings

• Username: what the user logs in with and, if the

  administrator allows for post information to be displayed (this is the
  usual practice), then this is what is shown as the author of a post.

• Email address: where all user emails will be sent. This
  includes password-recovery as well as system notifications pertaining
  to that user, including subscription notifications, including comment
  notifications.
• Password: the password a user logs in with. Must be typed
  twice to rule out typos. Note: if you make changes to your account but

  leave the password blank, it will remain the same as when you logged
  in. In other words, it is not deleted.

• Roles: only administrators should be able to edit this option, and this refers to what permission level a user has.
• Upload picture: assign an image to your profile, creating
  what is sometimes referred to as an "avatar". The dimensions and file sizes are
  limited (150x150 pixels / 50 kb) so you may need to resize your photo or image down
  significantly.
• Block configuration: a list of optional sidebar blocks that the administrator has given users permission to add to their view of the site. You do not need to change these settings.
• Signature: a short piece of text (some HTML may be allowed
  by the administrator) that appears at the bottom of every piece of
  content you create.
• Locale settings: Set your local time-zone here. This will ensure that your posts to the site carry the proper time-stamp.
• Theme settings: Do not modify these settings.