Presentation by Leia Scofield for DFW WP Tech meetup for June 2010. Leia demonstrated how to enhance WordPress for logged in users using several plugins and how to capture additional data about those users. She also showed how you can use all this information to build an team information or biography page for a corporate website.
Drops the registration, log in, and password recovery forms into your Page template
General settings let you use your own CSS or rewrite login links
Creates a Page for Login, so you can add content or you can put a tag in your template file
Creates a Page for Login, so you can add content or you can put a tag in your template file
Many options, including redirection, custom passwords, and custom emails
Formats the Profile form into your theme template
Can turn on or off for specific roles or keep certain roles from accessing the WP admin area altogether
Friendly /profile/ location
Allows user to upload a photo to their profile
Plugin options allow you to set dimensions, override avatars, and moderate photos
Square Thumbnails for User Photo plugin runs on top of User Photo and crops the thumbnail as a square instead of proportional to the original shape.
Slower wins
There are a few plugins for adding additional fields to the profile form. Register Plus hasn’t been updated in a couple of years and seems to have mixed results.
You can be hardcore and write these functions into functions.php.