vBulletin Manual - Adding Users

If you would like to create a new user account in the vBulletin database, click on the Add link under the Users section of the admin control panel. The following form will then appear on the right hand side of the screen:

This form accepts the following parameters:

User Group - The user group that this user is a member of.
User Name - The user's username (or handle).
Password - The user's password.
Email Address - The email address of the user.
Style Set - The style that the user has selected via the online user control panel.
Parent Email Address - If this user is registered as a COPPA user, then the email address here receives an email every time the user updates their profile. This will be blank for all users except COPPA users.
COPPA User - Is this a child under the age of 13? If it is, and you are set up to use the COPPA-compliant registration system, then this field should be set to yes.
Home Page - The URL of the user's web site (including https://).
ICQ Number - The ICQ number of the user. For more information, see: https://www.icq.com/. If they do not have an ICQ number, this field should be left empty.
AIM Handle - The handle of the user for AOL's Instant Messenger. More information can be found here: https://www.aol.com/aim/
Yahoo Messenger Handle - The handle of the user for Yahoo's instant messaging service.
Signature - The user can use this field to add a uniform signature to the end of selected messages. You may be able to use HTML/vB code/smilies depending on settings in the control panel.
Receive mailings from administrators - This option allows the user to opt out of administrator mailings.
Show email - Also known as privacy mode to the user. When you select no ,the email, icq, aim, yahoo fields will not be visible in the user profile.
Invisible on 'Online users' list - If yes is selected for this option, the user will not be visible on the bulletin board home page who's online list. Note: The user will be visible to administrators, but the username will have an asterisk (*) next to it to denote that the user has opted to be invisible.
Receive PMs - If no, the user will not receive any private messages.
Email on PM - If yes, the user will receive an email whenever he/she receives a new private message.
PM Popup - If yes, any new private messages will cause a message box to appear on the screen (regardless of what bulletin board page the user is viewing) that will give the user the chance to jump straight to the private messaging inbox.
Show Signatures - If no, the user's signature will not appear on any of his/her posts.
Show Avatars - If [b]no, all avatars will be invisible to this user.
Show Images - If no, all images posted by other users will be invisible to this user.
Show vBcode - If no, all vBcode posted by other users will be invisible to this user.
Use email notification by default - If yes, the user will an email notification when another user replies to his/her post/thread.
Remember Username and password - If yes, the software will remember the user's username and password so that he/she will not have to manually log in everytime he/she visits the bulletin board.
Browse boards with cookies - If yes, the software will retain the user's session in a cookie, instead of passing the information between pages using the s variable on the URL.
User Title / Use Custom Title - To give the user a customised "title", type the title in the user title field and select yes for the user custom title option.
Default view age - The number of days worth of threads to show on the forum topic page. Recommended values: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, 45, 60, 75, 100, 365, 1000 (ie all). -1 gives default forum selection.
Last Visit / Last Activity / Last Post - date stamps in the form yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.
Number of Posts - The number of posts that this user has accumulated (this figure is incremented by one everytime the user posts in a forum that has the Count posts made in this forum towards user post counts? option selected to yes.
Time Zone Offset (hours) - The user can specify this option to offset the server's time by a certain amount. This is used in addition to the offset that you can specify in the options area.
IP Address

It's also possible for you to add an unlimited number of extra fields to the user account. In the example screen shot above, the administrator has added Biography, Location, Interests, Occupation and Version of vBulletin as extra fields. These User Profile Fields will be explained in more detail later on in the manual.