Custom, front-end user settings page in WordPress

I find as I learn more and more on WordPress as a CMS, the requirement to keep users out of the WordPress dashboard altogether becomes increasingly common. The issue with prohibiting such access is, a user’s settings are normally handled through a dashboard view. In search of a solution, I found two routes:

1. Theme My Login, a plugin, handles this among many other things Its placement in the permalink structure of the page is not ideal, however, but it’s worth a shot.
2. On the WordPress.org forums, I eventually encountered this post by jimzqui. Using a custom template and a lot of additional CSS, this code is the shit to get a front-end settings page going. You’ll probably encounter an error – make sure you remove the ‘Resume’ field in his code, as chances are you don’t have one.