This one took a while, but we think we've got a better Registration/Login process in place, especially for new people. Same principle and it ties into the core WordPress functions, but it will look a little bit different.

When you click the login button at the top of the site or in the right side navigation, you will go to a different page. From there you will enter either your username or email and your password.

Same as before...if you don't get logged in before the fourth try and you keep going, you will be locked out of the site for a while. So if you can't remember your password, click the link to reset it. If you are just typing wrong, STOP, close your browser, try again. Don't keep trying to get in. If you get three lockouts in a set amount of time your IP and possibly your host will be banned from the site.

From the account login dashboard, the only thing you can do is change your password, (which you should do regularly, or at least once a year for security reasons), and logout.

Once you are logged in, you can edit your profile. You can do that right here in forums when you are here. The link on your account login dashboard simply leads to here.

From the edit profile page here in the forums, (again, this is where the button link on the account profile dashboard will bring you), you can add or edit your bio, signature,(the picture at the bottom of your forum posts, or it could be just text), change or load an avatar, (the little square graphic that represents you here in the forums and sitewide), change your account settings, and edit your social media identities.

You can also see what permissions you have for what parts of the forum, see what usergroups you are in for the forum, see what forum topic and post watches you have set, (you can't actually set new watches here, you have to do that from each post or topic you want to stay informed of via email), and see what attachments you've uploaded in the past.

Hope this simplifies things for existing users as well as potential new users!