I have a user-created profile on my site that I want to set as a featured profile for guests and registered viewers alike. (See Misc Information below for specific details.)

I've added his user account to the Public and Guest groups in the Joomla User Manager, but if I put in the URL to his profile, it still asks me to login first, before it will show me the profile. I just can't figure out how to make it viewable to guests.

This may be because his privacy settings are set to Friends Only... is there a way to change that as Admin? I don't have his user password.

Hoping for a quick response, as this is a change I need to make right away.

Thank you!

Hi, Matt.

If user set view rights to his/her profile as "Friends only" it can't be seen by guests.
As a administrator you could reset ALL privacy settings for ALL users... but this is not necessary good idea ;)
You could try to change privacy settings only for that user by fiddling in database.

1. Go to table: _community_users.
2. Find your user.
3. Edit record with that user.
4. In params column find "privacyProfileView":"30"
5. Change 30 to 20. Save.
6. Now profile is public ;)

Your database suggestion is what I was hoping for, so I got really excited for the fast reply. Thanks for that. Unfortunately, changing the privacyProfileView from 30 to 20 via phpMyAdmin didn't seem to work. I've cleared the cache, so I'm not sure why it didn't do the trick.

Is there maybe something more I need to do?

Hi, Matt.

My bad, I'm sorry. Change it to 0.
It should work as I tested it on my site.

Hrm... tried that also (changing it to 0), and cleared my cache. But I'm still getting the login page when I try to go directly to the profile. Am I using the wrong URL or something?

Please give me more details on how you made it work. I'm clearly doing something wrong.

Thanks for the follow-up!

Hi, Matt.

For that user I changed privacy value in db from 30 to 0:
www.prolusatia.nazwa.pl/test/profile-2/86super-user.html

This user has privacy settings 20 (members only):
www.prolusatia.nazwa.pl/test/profile-2/119-jomsocial2.html

What link do you use to display featured profile?

I used the URL that was displayed when on that user's page when logged in (the only way I could get to it).

Something like: brewliving.com/edit-profile/90-username (edited to protect user's privacy)

Hi, Matt.

Ha! Got it :) You set Edit Profile menu item in Hidden menu only for Registered :) I disabled that menu item and now profile can be seen by unregistered guests :) Please try it.

Um, no... now I just get a 404 error when clicking the link (the link is the 4th slide in the slideshow). What URL are you entering to see the profile in question, so I can fix the URL on the slide?

Okay, nevermind. I realized what I was doing wrong... I was using the wrong URL. I think I've got this resolved now.