8.1 Glossary

Terms used throughout this documentation.

Author archive — The page WordPress generates listing a user's posts, at a URL like /author/username/. By default it only exists for users with published content; the plugin's author archive setting makes it resolve for every user.

Avatar — A user's profile picture, shown in comments, author boxes, and anywhere the theme displays user images. The Avatar Edit module manages avatars through Simple Local Avatars.

Avatar rating — A content rating (G, PG, R, X) attached to an avatar image, following the scale WordPress inherits from Gravatar. Sites can use it to hide avatars above a chosen rating.

Current password field — A Profile Edit Form field that requires the user to re-enter their existing password before the form saves. A safeguard for forms that can change credentials.

Field connection — Beaver Builder's system for linking a module setting to dynamic data, for example connecting an image field to User Picture so it shows the logged-in user's avatar.

Module — A building block in Beaver Builder's editor. Beaver Profile Builder adds three modules, grouped under Beaver Profile Builder.

Simple Local Avatars — A free third-party plugin that stores avatars in the WordPress media library instead of Gravatar. Required by the Avatar Edit module.

User meta — WordPress's key-value storage attached to each user account. Custom fields in the Profile Edit Form save their values here.