Separate account settings and profile settings

[swissspidy]

Current limitations of profile management in WordPress:

On wp-admin/profile.php there's too much you can do:

• Change personal preferences
• Account and session management
• Update publicly visible profile data

If plugins add additional fields to that page, it gets very long quite quickly. Even without plugins you have to scroll all the way down to change your password. Pretty sure you change your password more often than disabling the visual editor, so that order isn't ideal.

Idea:

Separate account management and profile settings. Platforms like WordPress.com, Facebook or Twitter do this for a reason.

This was recently mentioned in a discussion about adding 2FA to core, see ​https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core/p1470765550002658.

The plugin I mentioned there: ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-profiles/

Slightly related: #26769.

Account management:

• Change backend preferences
• Change email address
• Change password
• Log out everywhere else (perhaps with a session overview in the future as was originally the plan)

Profile management:

• Show/change profile picture
• Change biographical info like name, contact methods

[karmatosed]

I would +1 this as from a user view it makes a lot of sense. My only concern is transitioning and how we do this split. I'd be interested in seeing some mockups and ideas about that.

[Travel_girl]

What about this:

Suggestion 1: an "more Options" Button next to the "Save" Button ann than a second page with the other options (and maybe an additions Menu-Field in the left menu).

Suggestion 2: at the post, pages and menu area, this problem is solved with the "Screen Options". I guess this would be a solution wich is more consistent than the first suggestion. But I not really prefer this, because many users miss this button

[Travel_girl]

Suggestion 1.1

[Travel_girl]

Suggestion 1.2

[Travel_girl]

Suggestion 2.1

[Travel_girl]

Suggestion 2.2

[melchoyce]

We discussed this in today's Design Triage and think splitting this into two sections is a good idea.

We have two ideas:

1. Add tabs to the page
2. Separate "Account Settings" into a separate page under "Users"

See attached mockups.

[johnbillion]

Was the WP User Profiles plugin (linked in the ticket description) discussed? It introduces tabs and several other features.

[Travel_girl]

+1 for the tabs. I think thats the most intuitive solution.

[johnbillion]

#53923 was marked as a duplicate.

[joedolson]

See #51086 as a path to implement this.