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Adding custom profile fields in WordPress (fully automatic)
By admin | October 17, 2011
Custom profile fields are additional custom-defined fields in the WordPress usermeta database that permit us to store additional information about a user. To add custom profile fields, add the following line to your functions.php in your theme folder:
include('customfields.php');
Now create a new file called customfields.php in the theme folder (the same folder as function.php) with the following contents:
<?php
function get_extra_profile_list() {
return Array(
/* Add your custom fields, here like follows:
'slug_of_the_field_here' => 'Field name for display',
*/
'address' => 'Address',
'favouritecolour' => 'Favourite Colour'
);
}
add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
function extra_user_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
<h3><?php _e("Extra profile information", "blank"); ?></h3>
<table class="form-table">
<?php
foreach(get_extra_profile_list() as $key => $value) {
?>
<tr>
<th><label for="<?php echo $key; ?>"><?php _e($value); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="<?php echo $key; ?>" id="<?php echo $key; ?>" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( $key, $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Please enter your $value."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
<?php }
add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );
function save_extra_user_profile_fields( $user_id ) {
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) ) { return false; }
foreach(get_extra_profile_list() as $key => $value) {
update_usermeta( $user_id, $key, $_POST[$key] );
}
}
?>
Now if you go to “Users” under your administration and edit a user, the additional profile fields will show up at the bottom of the edit page.
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Topics: PHP | 22 Comments »
December 9th, 2011 at 15:24
Thanx for the code, but how can I show the new field of the profile on the theme? but just the new field.
🙂
December 19th, 2011 at 23:03
The following snippet
Looks like it should do the job – but you probably need to tweak it 🙂
September 26th, 2012 at 11:22
that was very useful, helped me a lot
Thanks
December 13th, 2012 at 17:47
Hi,
Great information! I was wondering how to ensure that an Editor user role would be able to see the custom fields that I added? Right now I can only get Administrators to see them.
Thank you!
December 15th, 2012 at 20:24
@Cindy:
Change the “edit_user” to “edit_pages” in the line
if ( !current_user_can( ‘edit_user’, $user_id ) ) { return false; }
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