Profile page: let the account holder edit their own details, not just their students' #165

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2026-07-30T18:07:18Z

thatguygriff commented

2026-07-30 18:07:18 +00:00

The Profile block ([us_family]) is headed "Your profile", but the one person on it you cannot change is yourself. It lists the students you book for and lets you add, edit and remove them — while your own name, your birth year, and whether you take lessons yourself are fixed at whatever signup recorded.

That leaves two things needing a studio admin:

A wrong or changed name. A typo at signup, or a name that has since changed, has to be fixed by someone with WordPress admin.
A wrong answer to "Who are you registering?" That radio sets us_guardian_only, which decides whether you are offered as a student when booking. Someone who picked "on behalf of one or more students" and later took up lessons themselves — or who simply picked the wrong one — cannot correct it. GuardianService::bookableStudents() already carries a comment saying they can "put the account right from the profile page", and docs/features/parent-guardian-accounts.md repeats it; neither is true today.

Proposed

A Your details section at the top of the profile page, saved through the same nonce-checked template_redirect post/redirect/get path the child rows use:

Your name (required) — display_name and nickname together, so UserName does not fall back to the email address.
I take lessons myself — the positive of us_guardian_only.
Your birth year — us_birth_year, held to the same normaliseBirthYear() rule as every student.

Your email is shown but not editable: it is the account's user_login as well as its address, so changing it stays a studio-side job.

Out of scope

Re-asking the account-scope registration questions here. The child rows do not offer them on edit either, so doing it only for the account holder would be the odd one out.

The **Profile** block (`[us_family]`) is headed "Your profile", but the one person on it you cannot change is yourself. It lists the students you book for and lets you add, edit and remove them — while your own name, your birth year, and whether you take lessons yourself are fixed at whatever signup recorded. That leaves two things needing a studio admin: - **A wrong or changed name.** A typo at signup, or a name that has since changed, has to be fixed by someone with WordPress admin. - **A wrong answer to "Who are you registering?"** That radio sets `us_guardian_only`, which decides whether you are offered as a student when booking. Someone who picked "on behalf of one or more students" and later took up lessons themselves — or who simply picked the wrong one — cannot correct it. `GuardianService::bookableStudents()` already carries a comment saying they can "put the account right from the profile page", and `docs/features/parent-guardian-accounts.md` repeats it; neither is true today. ## Proposed A **Your details** section at the top of the profile page, saved through the same nonce-checked `template_redirect` post/redirect/get path the child rows use: - **Your name** (required) — `display_name` and `nickname` together, so `UserName` does not fall back to the email address. - **I take lessons myself** — the positive of `us_guardian_only`. - **Your birth year** — `us_birth_year`, held to the same `normaliseBirthYear()` rule as every student. Your email is shown but not editable: it is the account's `user_login` as well as its address, so changing it stays a studio-side job. ## Out of scope Re-asking the account-scope registration questions here. The child rows do not offer them on edit either, so doing it only for the account holder would be the odd one out.

thatguygriff added the enhancement label 2026-07-30 18:07:18 +00:00

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2026-07-30 18:08:11 +00:00

Let the account holder edit their own profile details

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2026-07-30 18:13:45 +00:00

Let the account holder edit their own details on the profile page #166

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2026-07-30 19:29:22 +00:00

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