Your profile on WordPress.com is the public-facing information associated with your account. This guide will show you how to find and update this information.
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There are two profile information areas:
- Your WordPress.com account profile details that apply to all sites owned by your account.
- Profile settings that you can control separately for each individual site in your account.
To access these profile settings, hover your mouse over your name or profile picture on the upper right corner of WordPress.com to reveal the following options:
- Edit Profile: Edit your user profile on the selected site only. (see below)
- My Account: Edit your WordPress.com account details. (see below)
- Log Out: Log out of your WordPress.com account.
The information in your WordPress.com account profile is publicly accessible by anyone on the internet, so you should only enter details that you are comfortable sharing with everyone (regardless of whether your site is private).
Visit your profile at the following link: https://wordpress.com/me or by selecting “My Account” when hovering your mouse over your name or profile picture on the upper right corner of WordPress.com.
You can add or update the following optional fields in your profile:
- Profile photo: An image representing you or your brand. If you add a profile photo, you get a Gravatar profile. You can update your profile photo by moving your mouse over your current photo and clicking the “Click to change photo” text that appears over the photo.
- First name: Your first name.
- Last name: Your last name.
- Public display name: This is how you would like your name to be displayed publicly, such as your first name, a nickname, or your brand’s name. You can change this name as often as you’d like. If you do not enter a public display name, your WordPress.com username is shown by default.
- Public web address: You can add a link to include with your profile when you leave comments on WordPress.com sites. This can be your website or blog that you want people to discover. Changing this web address will not affect the link on existing comments you have made; it will only change the link for future comments you leave.
- About Me: A brief bio or other information you want to display on your profile.
After updating any of these details, click the “Save profile details” button to save your changes.
Profile Links are links to websites that appear on your WordPress.com profile.
In the Profile Links section, click the “+ Add” button to add a new site to your profile. You can remove any sites by clicking the X next to it:
Your profile information is shown when you like and comment on WordPress.com websites and on any other site using Gravatar (such as the WordPress.com forums) unless you have opted to hide your profile in your profile settings.
After leaving a comment, someone can hover the mouse cursor over your name to view a hovercard with your profile information:
Click on the “View profile” link to access the user’s complete profile.
In your site’s dashboard, visit Users → Profile to access the following settings for the selected site:
- Visual Editor: Disable the visual editor if you wish to write in HTML code only.
- Syntax Highlighting: Disable syntax highlighting when editing code.
- Admin Color Scheme: Personalize the colors of your site’s admin dashboard.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Enable keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation.
- Toolbar: Show the top toolbar when viewing your website (for site users only – the general public will not see the toolbar regardless of this setting).
If you have installed plugins, you may find additional settings here provided by those plugins.
Click the “Update Profile” button at the bottom of the screen to save changes to the site-specific profile settings.
