WordPress ships no way for a user to upload a profile picture. Here are the three ways to add one, what each actually costs you, and the kinds of site where the right answer is not to.
An upload button next to a child’s name looks harmless and is not. Here is what actually goes wrong, where those pictures end up appearing, and how to give children a real choice without an upload field.
A parent with three campers should not need three accounts. Here is how to let one login register multiple children for camp, each with their own record and their own session.
What a summer camp registration form has to collect, the four ways camps build one in WordPress, and how to give every camper their own record instead of a repeater field.
What the COPPA Rule requires of a WordPress site with users under 13, and how parent-owned accounts with child profiles remove most collection points.
The User Switching plugin lets admins log in as other users. Profile switching lets members switch between their own family profiles. Which do you need?
Run a family-friendly Minecraft or kids’ gaming community site where siblings post and rank under their own names while a parent owns the login.
Give a kids’ video or story membership site real Netflix-style profiles: per-child watch history, favorites and age filters under one parent login.
Run a summer reading challenge on WordPress where a parent logs books for each child separately, with badges per reader and one family login.
Two siblings on different therapy plans cannot share one login. Give each child their own home practice plan while the parent keeps one account.