Using the core User module
You can see a user's profile information by navigating to http://example.com/user/UID, where UID is the user's ID number on the site. To see your own user profile, navigate to http://example.com/user when you log in or click on the My account link.
The default user profile page exposes some useful functionality. First, it shows the user's profile, and secondly, it provides the Edit tab that allows a user to edit their profile. The Edit tab will only be visible to the owner of the profile or to administrative users with elevated permissions.
Other modules can add tabs to the core profile page. As shown in the preceding screenshot by section 1, the core Tracker module adds a Track tab; this tab gives an overview of all the posts to which this user has participated. The Tracker module is discussed in more detail in Chapter 13, Tracking Student Progress.
As shown in the preceding screenshot by section 2, the Contact tab has been added by the core Contact module. The Contact...
