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How to Add Your Zone to Your Profile

MaryMcP Zone 8b - Phx AZ

9 years ago

There have been many questions about this so I thought I would make create a How To thread.

You can see that next to my 'handle', MaryMcP my zone and geographic location are shown. I did this by editing my Profile (under Your Houzz in the upper rt corner)

Then Edit Profile

First name is my handle, MaryMcP

Last name is Zone 8b Phoenix.

Easy Peesy.

Now, let's see all those Zones so we know where yer at!!

Cheers!

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mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)

9 years ago

last modified: 9 years ago

There is also a zone field. If you edit your Profile, then click on Advanced Settings, it takes you to a lot of good stuff for living with Houzz. Near the bottom is a field labelled Zone for Garden Forums. That's where mine is, which is why it is in parenthesis.

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MaryMcP Zone 8b - Phx AZ
Original Author
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Sure enough, I see it now. Thanks mad_g. It says I'm Zone 9. Hmmm, it didn't change. maybe it takes a while. bbl
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Not everyone knows their zone or even understands what it means. Say there was a poster from Saudi Arabia, for example, or China. If they would just put roughly their region into their name it might helpful. Marie: if people included their zone and/or their city/region in their name as it shows up upon posting, especially when they posted a question about a IDing a shrub, then it would be a lot easier to ID it without having to ask a lot of followup questions...which may or may never get answered by the original poster (OP). So, it would save me, the ID'er and the OP time. So it is critical information for certain questions or posts, but not all. I dont' want to have to click on their name to try to find more information -- which may or may not be there. Also, I see you have a (6) by your name -- assume that is zone? A zone number by itself is somewhat helpful, but a cold desert zone 6 is completely different than a Mid-Atlantic zone 6, so there is still some ambiguity in that. A region of a state would be a helpful addition, for example...SW Ohio or Eastern Colorado Plains.
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ernie85017, zn 9, phx
9 years ago
testing
ernie85017, zn 9, phx
9 years ago
It's working! This needs to be posted to every forum.
Lisa_H OK
9 years ago
You can change your screen name there too, if you got stuck having to modify your GW name. Your screen name doesn't have to be the same as your sign in name.
Emily H
9 years ago
Hi All - Great to see you guys helping each other out! Just wanted to pop in and say that either one of the methods above will work, however...

If you put it in your Last Name field, it will appear with all your posts on gardenweb.

If you put it in your zone field instead, it will only show up on gardening forums.

Hope that helps!
kimmq
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Keep in mind that your USDA Plant Hardiness Zone is mostly meaningless. The only information that contains, and ever did contain, is which plants will, likely, survive a normal winter in your zone. That Plant Hardiness Zone tells no one anything about climate and soil which are much more important to know.

kimmq is kimmsr
MaryMcP Zone 8b - Phx AZ
Original Author
9 years ago
What happened for me is, when I removed the zone and city/state from my last name field and placed that info in the Zone field under Advanced Settings, it did not show. nothing showed. I'm pretty sure I was using this thread as a test and ernie's zone shows so maybe once you've used the Last Name field, the Zone field won't populate? dunno. Maybe Emily, who may be a Houzz person, will be back to clarify.

In the meantime, ernie I found out how to personal message someone but it's a bit clunky. The person you want to message has to be "Following" you before you can message them. There appears to be no way to ask someone to allow you to message them. For example, there's a poster I've seen whose zone is in Vermont, where I grew up and still have family. I wanted to say hello and ask what part of VT she's in without going off-topic in threads where I've seen her. Can't find a way. I've also looked at the Contact Us section but it appears to only have answers to FAQ's and my Q is not in the database of FAQ's. Oh well, looks like no side chatting, at least for now.
mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
9 years ago
Down below the field for Zone in Advanced Settings is a menu bar for messaging. If you change it to 'Anyone can Message Me' it works like it used to.

At this point there aren't a lot of things people have complained about that either haven't changed, or that somebody has found a work around for.
MaryMcP Zone 8b - Phx AZ
Original Author
9 years ago
Yes, anyone can message me is good. But there is no way for me to reach out to someone that does not have that enabled - either by choice or by lack of knowledge. So, eastern NY - like where? I had family in Luzerne and Glens Falls for a while. Beautiful back there.
oscarmatic
6 years ago
Testing zone info display.

Hello, world!
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
6 years ago
Hello! Your test worked. Welcome.

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