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title: "How to Make Ultimate Member User Profiles Private by Default"
date: 2023-10-03
modified: 2026-06-14
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---
If you are using Ultimate Member, your member can set their Profile page to private. The user’s profile will then be accessible only to the user.

### Allow users to customize their profile privacy

You can give uses the ability to set their profile privacy. They can only set their privacy settings after they register.

![Ultimate Member Profile Privacy](https://www.userelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-03-151129-1024x337.png)

Steps to enable Profile Privacy:

1. Go to Ultimate Member > User Roles
2. Select the Role you want to edit.
3. Scroll down to Profile Access
4. Enable “Can make their profile private?” field.
5. Update Role

### How Users can set their profile to Private

By using the “Profile Privacy” account option, any user can make their profile or user page private. In the account page go to privacy tab and change “Profile Privacy” field to “Only me”.

![](https://www.userelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-03-152130.png)

### How to Make User Profiles Private by Default

There are no default settings that would make all user profiles private. But you may modify the privacy settings for all user profiles using the get\_user\_metadata filter.

```php
// Set default profile privacy to 'Only me' for private profiles
function set_default_profile_privacy($profile_privacy, $object_id, $meta_key) {
    if ($meta_key === 'profile_privacy') {
        $profile_privacy = 'Only me';
    }
    return $profile_privacy;
}

add_filter('get_user_metadata', 'set_default_profile_privacy', 30, 3);

```

Alternatively, there is the [UM Account Privacy Control](https://github.com/MissVeronica/um-account-privacy-control) plugin. This plugin allows you to configure User Privacy Control from the WordPress Dashboard.