Title: Just a bit lost
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Just a bit lost

 *  Resolved [Kimber254](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimber254/)
 * (@kimber254)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-a-bit-lost/)
 * Can the user set up their profile via the front panel (website) widgets> I want
   user to be able to have a profile without going I the back end.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-biographia/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-biographia/)

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 *  Plugin Author [vicchi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vicchi/)
 * (@vicchi)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-a-bit-lost/#post-3583842)
 * > Can the user set up their profile via the front panel (website) widgets
 * I’m afraid not. This isn’t the way the plugin works. In order to gain access 
   to a user’s profile you need to be logged in, authenticated and in the relevant
   admin screen. There’s no technical reason why a plugin couldn’t do this, but 
   I’ve never seen one that bypasses the admin screens and exposes admin functionality
   directly to the front-end.
 * > I want user to be able to have a profile without going I the back end.
 * You can’t create a user without being logged in, having the applicable role and
   being on the WordPress dashboard/admin screens.
 * -Gary
 *  Thread Starter [Kimber254](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimber254/)
 * (@kimber254)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-a-bit-lost/#post-3583913)
 * Let me explain myself better. To view club’s private web site you must sign up
   then be set at a contributor. This is the only way I could find to make it totally
   private. I really don’t want the contributors to have access to the dashboard
   so I use a plug-in to hide the admin bar for everyone but the admin. But my p2
   theme gives me no way to set up a profile picture. I tried setting up an admin
   picture in the “your profile” but that didn’t work either. I figured worse comes
   to worse I could upload everyone’s picture. It is a small local club.
 * I had hoped to find some plug-in that would allow people to set up a profile 
   pictures or select an avatar on the site itself without them having to go in 
   the back end where the your profile is.
 * Thank you
    Kimber
 *  Plugin Author [vicchi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vicchi/)
 * (@vicchi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-a-bit-lost/#post-3584042)
 * There may well be a plugin that allows this functionality, but if there is I 
   haven’t seen it. All the avatar management/enhancement functionality that I can
   see (on an admittedly brief and cursory search) rely on a user being a) logged
   in and b) accessing their profile via the dashboard.
 * But regardless of this, this is really a more general question and not one that
   specifically relates to WP Biographia, as far as I can see.
 * I’d recommend posting in either the [Plugins And Hacks](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks)
   or [How-To And Troubleshooting](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting)
   forums to see if someone has come across this sort of thing before.
 * -Gary

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 * Last reply from: [vicchi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vicchi/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-a-bit-lost/#post-3584042)
 * Status: resolved