Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4975807-20130118024709/@comment-5967152-20130126110056

If you’ve ever built an ExpressionEngine site with significant membership capabilities, you may have run into the less-than-ideal situation that is the Member Profile Templates.



For the uninitiated, Member Profile Templates in EE are not the same as normal templates that you create and organize into template groups. Member Templates do not parse standard EE tags and they can be difficult to style to match the rest of your website.



In most cases I bypass the Member Templates completely and use the User Module from Solspace. The module allows you to implement all of the membership functionality in your regular EE templates. The User Module isn’t free and I’m sure at $90 some people probably think twice about picking it up.



(To me it’s worth every dollar plus some just because of the hours it saves me during implementation.)



However, for very simple member implementations where you only need to view member profile data, EE does give you a very handy tag without the need to purchase an extra module. The tag is called the Custom Profile tag and it allows you to display member profile data in your normal EE templates.

