Settings

Userena comes with a few settings that enables you to tweak the user experience for you users. There are also a few Django settings that are relevant for Userena.

Userena settings

USERENA_SIGNIN_REDIRECT_URL

Default /accounts/%(username)s/' (string)

A string which defines the URI where the user will be redirected to after signin.

USERENA_ACTIVATION_DAYS

Default: 7 (integer)

A integer which stands for the amount of days a user has to activate their account. The user will be deleted when they still haven’t activated their account after these amount of days by running the cleanexpired command.

USERENA_ACTIVATION_NOTIFY

Default: True (boolean)

A boolean that turns on/of the sending of a notification when USERENA_ACTIVATION_NOTIFY_DAYS away the activation of the user will expire and the user will be deleted.

USERENA_ACTIVATION_NOTIFY_DAYS

Default: 2 (integer)

The amount of days, before the expiration of an account, that a notification get’s send out. Warning the user of his coming demise.

USERENA_ACTIVATED

Default: ALREADY_ACTIVATED (string)

String that defines the value that the activation_key will be set to after a successful signup.

USERENA_REMEMBER_ME_DAYS

Default: (gettext('a month'), 30)) (tuple)

A tuple containing a string and an integer which stand for the amount of days a user can choose to be remembered by your project. The string is the human readable version that gets displayed in the form. The integer stands for the amount of days that this string represents.

USERENA_FORBIDDEN_USERNAMES

Default: ('signup', 'signout', 'signin', 'activate', 'me', 'password') (tuple)

A tuple containing the names which cannot be used as username in the signup form.

USERENA_MUGSHOT_GRAVATAR

Default: True (boolean)

A boolean defining if mugshots should fallback to Gravatar service when no mugshot is uploaded by the user.

USERENA_MUGSHOT_DEFAULT

Default: identicon (string)

A string for the default image used when no mugshot is found. This can be either a URI to an image or if USERENA_MUGSHOT_GRAVATAR is True one of the following options:

404
Do not load any image if none is associated with the email hash, instead return an HTTP 404 (File Not Found) response.
mm
Mystery-man, a simple, cartoon-style silhouetted outline of a person (does not vary by email hash).
identicon
A geometric pattern based on an email hash.
monsterid
A generated ‘monster’ with different colors, faces, etc.
wavatar
Generated faces with differing features and backgrounds

USERENA_MUGSHOT_SIZE

Default: 80 (int)

Integer defining the size (in pixels) of the sides of the mugshot image.

USERENA_MUGSHOT_PATH

Default: mugshots/ (string)

The default path that the mugshots will be saved to. Is appended to the MEDIA_PATH in your Django settings.

USERENA_USE_HTTPS

Default: False (boolean)

Boolean that defines if you have a secure version of your website. If so, userena will redirect sensitive URI’s to the secure protocol.

USERENA_DEFAULT_PRIVACY

Default: registered (string)

Defines the default privacy value for a newly registered user. There are three options:

closed
Only the owner of the profile can view their profile.
registered
All registered users can view their profile.
open
All users (registered and anonymous) can view their profile.

USERENA_DISABLE_PROFILE_LIST

Default: False (boolean)

Boolean value that defines if the profile_list view is enabled within the project. If so, users can view a list of different profiles.

USERENA_USE_MESSAGES

Default: True (boolean)

Boolean value that defines if userena should use the django messages framework to notify the user of any changes.

USERENA_LANGUAGE_FIELD

Default: language (string)

The language field that is used in the custom profile to define the preferred language of the user.

Django settings

LOGIN_URL

Default: /accounts/login/ (string)

The URL where requests are redirected for login, especially when using the login_required() decorator.

In userena this URI normally would be /accounts/signin/.

LOGOUT_URL

Default: /accounts/logout/ (string) LOGIN_URL counterpart.

In userena this URI normally would be /accounts/signout/.