Account settings tabs
The Settings feature is your members’ account area. It does not have a fixed list of tabs — it reads them from your site, so the tabs your members see are the ones your plugins provide.
Core tabs
Section titled “Core tabs”These are always rendered natively:
| Tab | What a member does there |
|---|---|
| General | Their basic account details |
| Account | Username and email |
| Password | Change their password |
| Privacy | Profile privacy settings |
| Email Notification | Which emails they receive |
| In-app Notification | Which push and in-app notifications they receive |
| Personal Data | Export or erase their data |
| Delete | Delete their account |
Two of these carry labels that differ from the underlying names: notifications appear as Email Notification and In-app Notification, because “web notifications” means nothing on a phone.
Personal Data and Delete matter for app store review. Both Apple and Google require an account-deletion path inside an app that creates accounts, and this is it.
Extension tabs rendered natively
Section titled “Extension tabs rendered natively”Plugins contribute tabs, and these get real native screens rather than a webview:
| Tab | Plugin | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| My Photos | User Photos | Albums and photos, with delete. See My Photos |
| My Points | Ultimate Member - myCred | Balances, transfers and referrals. See My Points |
| Payment Methods | WooCommerce + UM WooCommerce | Saved cards. See Payment methods and orders |
| Billing, Shipping | UM WooCommerce | Address forms |
| Orders, Downloads | UM WooCommerce | Order history, an order detail screen, and downloadable files |
| Newsletters | UM Mailchimp | Subscribe toggles, interest groups and tags |
| Social | UM Social Login | Connected providers, connect and disconnect |
| Terms & Conditions | UM Terms & Conditions | The terms, with an agree action |
| Private Messages | UM Private Messages | Opens the chat Blocked Users screen |
Private Messages hides itself when your app has no Chat tab. A blocked-users screen in an app with no chat is a dead end, so it is not shown.
Everything else
Section titled “Everything else”A tab from any other plugin, if it carries a URL, opens as a webview card inside the settings screen. The member stays in the app, and the page comes from your website.
The Ultimate Member Stripe billing tab is the usual example.
The account settings screen and its tabs
record → src/assets/media/account-settings.mp4
Controlling the presentation
Section titled “Controlling the presentation”Two settings on the Settings feature:
- Show each account tab’s icon — icons beside tab names, or text only.
- Render account tabs as a dropdown — a dropdown instead of a tab strip. Worth turning on when your site contributes many tabs, because a strip of twelve is unusable on a phone.
When it does not work
Section titled “When it does not work”| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| No tabs at all | The Appearance endpoint group is off | Enable it under Memberside → REST API |
| A tab is missing | Its plugin is inactive, or the tab is hidden on your site | Check the plugin, then the account tab settings in Ultimate Member |
| A tab opens as a webview when you expected native | Only the listed plugins have native tabs | Expected |
| My Photos is empty | The Photos endpoint group is off | Enable it |
| Payment Methods is missing | It needs both WooCommerce and UM WooCommerce | Activate both |
| The tab strip runs off the screen | Too many tabs for a phone | Turn on Render account tabs as a dropdown |