cafead,
Only if you put that information out there. It is stored in your database, not on your site. As long as you haven’t provided a way of outside folks to look, then it’s going to stay out of sight.
Hey N.M,
You and the other developers are doing a great job! Thanks for your support and making Word Press so nice to work with.
My question to the “Profile Mystery” is: what was it originally intended for? I saw the password and E-mail address, but what about the “bio” it asked for? I mean, when I first jumped on board with my humble Blog using Word Press, I freely filled out most of the fields on this page and thought to myself, “this is where someone will see my vitals!” Regrettably, as I explored the corners of my website, I found no hint of my inputted data. I assumed that part of this information was located in the post field (main page = index), but then I remembered when I first used the Blog, I had to input that information anyway.
As you pointed out to Cafead, you need to put that information out onto your site? How would you do that? And why would Word Press not have a default for this? [ I’m using 1.2.2 also]
Thanks 🙂
thomasso,
Thanks for your kind words. I asked myself those very questions as well. Any field in your admin panel that contains information has a holding spot in the database. If you want to extract information out of the database, you may wish to do so by using a template tag.
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Template_Tags is a good place to start exploring these, especially the author tags.
My assumption for the reason why WP does not output this by default is for privacy reasons. I was not part of the initial design concept so I am only guessing the reason.
I’d say it’s an issue of both privacy and security, in that much is done to assure that little to nothing is publically available unless explicitly made so by the admin/user.
Here’s a couple “public” solutions for author profile data:
http://jfoucher.info/2004/10/03/author-page-wordpress-plugin/
http://wiki.ww.wp.xz.cn/?pagename=GetAuthorProfile
One of the users has updated her profile several times, but it is not showing up on the blog, even though it shows up on the admin side.
This is not true of any other contributor. What do I do?
