Feature settings
Select a placed feature to open its settings. Everything here applies to that one screen; anything that applies to the whole app is in Global App Settings.
Appearance
Section titled “Appearance”How the screen presents itself.
Title and Description appear at the top of the screen. Every feature has them, and both are optional. Set the title — an untitled screen reads as unfinished, and the description is the natural place for the one line of context that stops members having to guess what a screen is for.
The rest of this tab varies by feature: screen background, form wrapper styling, button treatment. Two features have no Appearance tab at all — Verified Users and Online Users — because they render badges inside other screens rather than screens of their own.
Features
Section titled “Features”What the screen actually does. This is the tab that varies most, because it carries each feature’s own options.
Typical settings you will meet:
| Setting | Appears on |
|---|---|
| Which form to use | Profile, Login, Register, Forgot Password |
| Which member directory | Directory |
| Which sidebar to open | Sidebar Trigger |
| Where to go after sign-in, sign-out or registration | Login, Logout, Register, Default Login, Default Register |
| Post types, layout, sorting, search | Posts |
| Product view, columns, category, reviews | Products |
| Group sorting, search, columns | Groups, My Groups |
| Activity scope and whether to show the composer | Activity |
| Which account tabs show icons, or render as a dropdown | Settings |
Each feature’s own page in the catalogue documents its settings in full.
Restrictions
Section titled “Restrictions”Which member roles can see the tab.
Leave it empty and everyone sees the tab. Choose one or more roles and only those members do — the tab is not rendered at all for anyone else, rather than being shown and refused.
Two things worth knowing:
This hides navigation, not data. A restriction stops the tab appearing. It does not stop the underlying endpoint answering. Anything that must be private should be private on your WordPress site, enforced by the plugin that owns it.
Signed-out members have no role. A tab restricted to any role is hidden before sign-in, which is usually what you want — but it means a restricted tab cannot be part of your signed-out experience.
The three tabs of a feature's settings
record → src/assets/media/tab-settings.mp4
When it does not work
Section titled “When it does not work”| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| A form picker is empty | No form has opted into the API | Forms and directories |
| A setting saves and reverts | The value failed validation server-side | Try a simpler value, and get in touch if it recurs |
| A tab is invisible to everyone | A restriction names a role nobody has | Clear the restriction and set it again |
| No Appearance tab on a feature | Verified Users and Online Users have none by design | Nothing to fix |