The Ultimate Member Profile Completeness extension is designed to enhance user engagement and ensure that profiles on your site are fully completed. This extension is particularly useful for managing user profiles on membership and social networking sites where having comprehensive user information is crucial.

With this extension, you can effectively encourage or mandate users to fill out their profiles by implementing a range of features that promote profile completion. One of its core functions is to display which profile fields a user still needs to complete, along with a progress bar that shows how much of their profile has been filled out. This information can be presented through sidebar widgets, offering a clear and immediate visual cue to users.

Users have the flexibility to complete their profiles directly through a pop-up interface that can appear anywhere on the site, or they can navigate to their profile page to make the necessary updates. For sites that require a more stringent approach, the extension can enforce profile completion by redirecting users to their edit profile page until they have provided the required information. This ensures that profiles are filled out in their entirety before users can fully engage with the site.

The Ultimate Member Profile Completeness extension also allows you to control visibility within the member directory, making it possible to show only those users whose profiles meet a specified completion threshold. You can set the percentage limit that determines whether a profile is considered complete, ensuring that users who have not fully completed their profiles do not appear in searches or directories.

Customization is a significant aspect of the Profile Completeness extension. You can select which profile fields are included in the completeness assessment and assign a percentage value to each field based on its importance. For instance, a field like gender might be worth 5% of the total profile completeness, while a field like country might contribute 10%. This granular control allows you to tailor the profile completion requirements to your specific needs.

Widgets related to profile completeness will disappear once a user has completed their profile, providing a clean and user-friendly interface. Additionally, you can determine which user roles will have the profile completeness feature enabled and set unique profile field requirements for each role.

The Ultimate Member Profile Completeness extension also offers the flexibility to display the profile progress bar anywhere on the site using shortcodes, making it highly adaptable to different site layouts. To further encourage profile completion, you can restrict users from commenting on posts, creating topics, replying in bbPress forums, or viewing other user profiles until their profile meets the required level of completeness. This ensures that only fully engaged users are granted access to these features, fostering a more interactive and complete user experience on your site.

In summary, the Ultimate Member Profile Completeness extension provides a comprehensive suite of tools for managing and encouraging user profile completion, ensuring that your site’s user base is both active and fully represented.