Enabling User Pictures in Drupal 5

The first quick tip I have for my fellow Drupal enthusiasts has to to do with user pictures. Once it is enabled, registered users can upload a picture representing who they are when they go and register on your site. Once you enable this setting, you can decide when you want the pictures to show. You can include them in posts and/or comments.

It's very easy to set up user pictures in Drupal, but you do have to make a few mouse clicks to do this. You have to go to User Settings to turn it on and then to Theme Configuration to show them.

The reason you have to go to User Settings to enable it and then back to the Theme Configuration to show it is so you can set it up differently for different themes. If your Drupal site has more than one theme, you can tell one theme to include the pictures and the other(s) to not include it.

So how did I turn these on?

You need to go to User Managment section under administration. In a submenu is User Settings . At the bottom of that page is where you can enable user pictures .

You can also set a default picture. Note that this has to be a full URL (which is not the drupal standard).

From there, you can go back to the theme configuration theme and enable user pictures.