Advanced Tab: General

Overview

The General Settings in the Advanced tab is intended to provide you with additional control over your website's functionality and appearance. Within this section, you can find options to enhance your site's performance or customize its behaviour. To access these options, navigate to:  WP Admin > Ultimate Member > Settings > Advanced > General.

General

This subtab offers customization options for displaying required fields, caching user profiles, and removing all plugin data on uninstallation. Each setting serves a specific purpose in enhancing the functionality and user experience of your website.

Required fields' asterisk

This setting allows you to enable or choose whether to display an asterisk (*) next to required fields in forms, providing a visual indicator to users. It helps users understand which fields they must fill out.

Cache User Profile

This setting controls whether user data is cached. Disabling this can be useful if you have dynamic content or need to ensure that the most up-to-date information is always displayed. When enabled, it optimizes your site's performance by creating a cache whenever profile or registration form details are updated or saved. Instead of querying the database for each field individually, UM retrieves all user data from a single cache, enhancing efficiency by reducing database queries. You can read more info here: Ultimate Member Dashboard

Remove Data on Uninstall

Enabling this setting will completely remove all Ultimate Member data when the plugin or its extensions are deleted. This is useful if you want to make sure that no traces of the plugin remain in your database after uninstallation.

Deprecated Articles: Older articles have been moved to the Deprecated category and may no longer be relevant due to recent updates in Ultimate Member. However, they remain available for historical reference.

For the previous version of the Advanced Tab documentation, you can view the old article here. Please note that it may contain outdated information that has since been updated.