The Profilometer is a box on the WordPress Dashboard that shows how complete your staff profiles are: how many people have a profile photo, and how many have filled in each of the other details you choose to measure. It arrived in Govintra 5.3.52. For the companion box that counts users and content, see Use the Site overview dashboard widget.
What the Profilometer dashboard widget shows
The Profilometer box has two parts.
Profile photo is a ring chart. The figure in the middle is the percentage of staff profiles with a photo. Beside it, Has a photo and No photo give the counts and percentages, and “Out of N staff profiles” is the total being measured.
Other profile details has one bar for each detail you have chosen, such as Job title or Team. Each bar shows the number and percentage of profiles with that detail filled in: green is complete and striped red is missing. Rest the pointer on a bar to see “N complete, N missing”.
A detail counts as complete only when every part of it is filled in. First and last name needs both names, so a profile with only a first name counts as missing. A blank field counts as missing, and so does a Team field where every team has been removed.
Who sees the Profilometer and where it appears
The Profilometer needs the Staff directory module, switched on under Options, Modules. Without it the box does not exist. See Set up the staff directory.
It is shown to anyone who can list users on the site. On most intranets that means administrators; editors and other roles do not usually have that capability, but your site’s set-up may differ. See Roles and capabilities.
It appears on the Dashboard only (Dashboard, Home in the admin menu). Like any Dashboard box, you can drag it to another position or hide it under Screen Options.
Choose which profile details the Profilometer measures
Under the bars, Show these details lists every detail that can be measured as a row of buttons. Select one to show its bar; select it again to hide it. The change shows at once and is saved in the background. If you hide every bar, the box says “No details chosen. Choose some below.”
Until you make a choice, six details are shown: First and last name, Job title, Team, Line manager, Telephone and Mobile. Grade, Bleep, Name pronunciation, Pronouns, X handle, LinkedIn URL, Working pattern, Skills and experience and Biography are off until you switch them on. Location and Floor / room are offered only when the Locations module is on.
The choice is your own: it is saved to your account and remembered next time, and every other administrator has theirs. If “Your choice could not be saved. Please try again.” appears under the buttons, reload the Dashboard and try again.
Find the people who are missing a profile detail
Under the ring chart, select List the N people without a photo. The Users screen opens showing only the staff profiles with no photo, with the notice “Showing staff profiles missing this detail: Profile photo. Profiles hidden from the staff directory are left out.” Select Edit on a person to add the detail yourself, or ask them to update their own profile: see Update your staff profile. Select Show all users in the notice to return to the full list.
The bars have no link, but the same list exists for every detail: on the Users screen, add ?govintra_missing= and the detail’s name to the address, for example users.php?govintra_missing=job_title. These lists are always current. If people have photos that do not show, see Problems with the staff directory and profiles.
Keep the Profilometer figures up to date
The Profilometer counts once and keeps the figures for six hours; the line at the bottom of the box says how old they are, for example “Updated 2 hours ago”. Saving a profile does not update them, so a photo added a minute ago is not counted yet. To count again now, select Refresh at the bottom of the box.
Which profiles the Profilometer counts
Every account on the site counts as a staff profile, whatever its role, except those with Hide from directory switched on; the box reminds you that “Profiles hidden from the staff directory are not counted.” Service accounts, shared mailboxes and test users therefore show as incomplete profiles until you hide them: see Hide a person from the staff directory.
Percentages are whole numbers, and never reach 100% while anyone is missing: with one person out of 500 lacking a photo, the chart says 99%. Likewise it shows 1% rather than 0% while at least one person has the detail. The counts beside the percentages are exact.
To encourage people to fill in the gaps themselves, add the (Govintra) Profile nudge widget to the homepage.