Profile Basics
Profiles are a view of a set of posts from your e-portfolio blog.
Creating a Profile
In the Dashboard got to Profiles -> Add New
On if you are on the front of your blog choose profile from the New menu on the Admin bar:
Editing a Profile
The Add new profile page will let you do the following:
- Name the Profile
- Add your school name and class.
- Add a badge image (for school badge for example) and a Profile image.
- Order the Profile sections and adjust their content.
- Save a Draft Profile
- Preview a Profile
- Publish a Profile.
On creating a new Profile the profile sections that have posts with the relevent Profile Tags will be added to the profile.
Profile sections can be rearranged by drag and drop.
![profile section drag and drop screenshot](https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/public/glowbloghelp/uploads/sites/2545/2015/10/profile-section.png)
When you hover over a profile section the cursor changes to a ‘move‘ cursor and a disclosure arrow appears.
Profile sections can be removed: Expand the section and click remove selection.
The content of profiles sections can be edited.
![Screen Shot Expanded Profile Section.](https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/public/glowbloghelp/uploads/sites/2545/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-16-at-15.42.55.png)
By default the profile section will show the last 3 posts with the appropriate profile tag. These can be removed. Once removed you can add other post with that tag with the pop-up at the bottom of the section..
![Screen Shot Adding a Post to a Profile Section.](https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/public/glowbloghelp/uploads/sites/2545/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-26-at-12.37.51.png)
Profile can be saved as Drafts or Published.
![Screen Shot Publish Metabox](https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/public/glowbloghelp/uploads/sites/2545/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-26-at-12.40.47.png)
Once published Profiles cannot be edited, although a clone can be made and that clone edited.
If a profile has been saved as a Draft you can preview the profile.
Clicking the Publish button will show a confirmation Dialog :
![Screen Shot Publish conformation Dialog](https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/public/glowbloghelp/uploads/sites/2545/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-26-at-12.43.21.png)
Once the profile is published the profile metabox is updated:
You can Click view profile to view, print or export the profile to PDF.