Messages page. Add a new 'Message Center' module to the Messages page, and put it in the center pane Go to the Module Settings for the new Message Centre module In the 'Permissions' tab of the Module Settings, uncheck 'Inherit View Permissions from Page' Checkpoint At this point, you should have a functioning User Profile page setup, with Journal posts, Messaging Center and the basic User Profile features like Display Name and User Profile Photo.  The best way to access this is to click on your Display Name which shows the currently logged-in user. If the display is not showing up as it should, you might have a problem with your User Profile page.  There is a bug ( as noted here ) whereby any carriage returns in the User Profile (particularly the 'biography') will break the Knockout.js code that loads the profile details.  If you're affected by this, just edit your profile and remove any page-breaks or carriage returns. The next problem you might encounter is that Profile information in your site is replaced with ********.  The worst case with this is where the User Profile photo is replaced with a Url of ******** -- which obviously isn't valid and returns a 400 invalid Url, which leaves a 'broken image' picture. To fix this, you need to synchronise the permissions between your User Profile fields and your User Profile display. In the templated Html we loaded above (see Step 4, item 4 and 9, and Step 5, item 9)