Introduction

Your profile settings in Plesk define important account details such as your contact information, password, interface preferences, and language settings. Keeping this information accurate ensures smooth communication, proper notification delivery, and a personalized user experience within the control panel.

Plesk makes it easy for each user - whether administrator, customer, or reseller - to update their profile details at any time directly from the dashboard.

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of accessing and editing your profile settings in Plesk.

Getting Started

First and foremost, please ensure you are logged in to your Plesk control panel. To do that, please enter your IP address, hostname, or domain name inside your web browser’s search bar and add “:8443” at the end. It should look something like: “https://yourdomain.com:8443”. By doing so, you will be prompted by a login form that requests your username and password.

After logging in with your username and password, Plesk will automatically display the “Websites & Domains” page, which will serve as the index page from where you can manage everything related to your websites and domains on Plesk.

Accessing Your Profile Settings

To open your user profile settings, please click on your username in the top right corner. Performing this action will open a drop-down menu, and from the available options, please select the “Edit Profile” option. 

This will open your account profile page, where all editable settings are located.

Editing General Contact Information

On the profile index page, you can update your personal details, including:

• Contact name - Please use the text field here to change the contact name of your Plesk user.

• Email address - Please use the text field here to change the email address of your Plesk user.

• External email address - Please use this text field to add an external email address for your user, which will be used as an alternative if the user loses access to the main email address.

• Old Password - Please use this text field to add your old password. This field should be used only if you wish to change your Plesk user’s password.

• Password - Please use this text field to add the new password for your Plesk user.

• Confirm Password - Please retype the new password here to confirm it.

• Plesk Language - Please use the drop-down menu to select your Pleks user’s language. 

• Multi-Factor Authentication - Please click on the link corresponding to this setting to set up Multi-Factor Authentication. Once you do that, you will be redirected to a new page, where you need to tick the “Enable Multi-Factor Authentication” checkbox. Afterward, you will see a QR code which you need to scan with your Google Authenticator App, or other Two-Factor authenticator app, and then add the verification code in the “Verification code” text field. Next, you can enable the “Remember Device” feature and fill in the number of days to remember the device in the text field. Finally, please click on the “Save” button at the bottom to enable multi-factor authentication.

• Newsletters - Please tick this checkbox to enable the WebPros companies to send you newsletters about any related WebPros services.

Once you are finished editing the above, please click on the “Apply” button at the bottom of the page to save them and remain on the page, or click on the “Ok” button to save them and be redirected to the previous page.

These details are used for notifications, administrative contact, and communication through Plesk.

Editing Personal Contact Information

To edit your personal contact information in Plesk, please open the “Contact Details” tab under the “Edit Profile” page.

Let’s go through all of the available details you can edit under this tab.

• Company Name - Please use the text field to add your Company name if you are using this user on behalf of your company.

• Phone Number - Please use this text field to type in your phone number.

• Instant messenger - Please use the text field and drop-down menu to select and define your instant messenger. The default one is ICQ.

• Address - Please use this content box to type in your address.

• City - Please use this text field to type in the city you live in.

• State or province - Please use this text field to type in the State or Province you live in.

• Postal or ZIP code - Please use this text field to type in your postal or ZIP code.

• Country - Please use this drop-down menu to select the country you live in.

• Additional Information - Please use this text field to fill in any information you believe is relevant about the user.

After entering all the changes, please click on the “Apply” button at the bottom of the page to save them and remain on the page, or click on the “Ok” button to save them and be redirected to the previous page.

Verifying Your Profile Changes

After saving your adjustments:

1. Navigate back to the dashboard.
2. Confirm that the updated profile information appears correctly.
3. If you changed your language or theme, the update should apply immediately.
4. If you modified your password, your next login will require the new credentials.

This ensures your new settings have been applied successfully.

Conclusion

As you can see, Plesk provides an easy and intuitive way to manage and edit your personal profile settings. By keeping your information up to date and adjusting your interface preferences, you can ensure a secure and personalized experience within the control panel.

We hope this tutorial was helpful, and we kindly encourage you to review your profile settings periodically - especially your contact information and password - to maintain a safe and accurate hosting environment.