Comments on: Adding extra user meta fields

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:51:29 +0000

For all of those wanting the possibility to create and manage the custom profile fields, give me a signal on my email if you want my custom profile manager plugin it’s not on WP plugins repository because it’s still part of a bigger ecommerce plugin suite. I’ll be glad to strip it out and make it a standalone plugin.

Greets!

By: Debbie Campbell

Debbie Campbell — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:26:30 +0000

We did get the custom meta data plugin working correctly; now all that’s left is getting the Create Your Community plugin working but that’s a separate matter. When CYC is activated all custom data is hidden; when it’s off, it’s visible.

By: westi

westi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:07:07 +0000

I have just checked and yes I can see them fine when logged in as a non-admin user.

If you are still having issues drop me an email using my contact form and I’ll see if I can help you solve them.

By: Debbie Campbell

Debbie Campbell — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:46:37 +0000

This is really good work – I’m using this and Daniel Quinn’s variation for my directory site. But I have one question – with your plugin, when a registered user (not an admin) visits his/her profile to edit it, do they actually *see* the data they’ve previously entered? Mine is coming up blank every time for the custom fields, even though the fields themselves are visible. Only when logged in as an admin can I see the actual data in those fields… And the data is showing correctly on my author.php page, so I know it’s actually in there…

By: Adding Custom User Meta to WordPress User Profiles » This Electronic Life » WordPress, Digital Publishing, and Web Design » Daniel J. Quinn

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:10:17 +0000

[...] http://prospace.superfreelancer.com. Of course, for pre-2.9 extended user profiles, we should thank Peter Westwood for having originally written this script… I just made some modifications and answered a few [...]

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Extending User Profiles in WordPress » DQuinn.net — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:45:26 +0000

[...] hacking the core, and have these new fields appear in the Dashboard so users can fill them out. In PJW User Meta, Peter Westwood demonstrated how we could add extra fields to the Profile and process them in a [...]

By: Richard Tape

Richard Tape — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:05:39 +0000

Ah bums! I figured as much. Thanks for the reply westi. To be honest my plugin isn’t going to be ready for a while yet (it’s quite a large one, said the actress to the bishop) so waiting until 2.9 seems to be the way to go!

Thanks again!

By: westi

westi — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:43:47 +0000

What you want to do will be much simpler in WordPress 2.9 thanks to the changes in http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11784. At the moment it may not be as easy.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:12:01 +0000

Hehehe me too. This is actually a powerful tool for those who understand how wordpress works. I am intending to use it with buddypress to achieve so much.. watch me out!

Thanks for sharing

By: Richard Tape

Richard Tape — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:03:22 +0000

Hmm, since my previous post I’ve discovered a couple of things. 1) The user_register appears to be the wrong action to use for my cause. register_form and register_post appear to be the ones I want. 2) After looking at user-new.php in the source code, it seems to explicitly list all of the possible fields for the form without allowing any additions.

So I’m now not 100% sure that I can do what I want. From another one of your posts it seems that this might be coming in 2.9. Would love to know if you can think of a way to do this already, though?

By: Richard Tape

Richard Tape — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:11:15 +0000

Westi, this is brilliant. I’m using this for a plugin I’m creating and I’m also trying to add extra user meta on the ‘Create New User’ page using the user_register action. However, I’m struggling.

add_action(‘user_register’, array(&$this, ‘action_show_user_profile’));
add_action(‘user_register’, array(&$this, ‘action_process_options_update’));

I’ve tried that, but it’s not really doing what I had hoped. Any hints as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again for this.

By: cinco

cinco — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:11:44 +0000

Hi Peter!

How do I add these fields to user register page in admin panel (user-new.php)?

By: mrdthomas

mrdthomas — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:35:15 +0000

Great stuff man this help me a lot. Kudos my friend.

By: Jonnya

Jonnya — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:15:29 +0000

Oh it just gets better and better – great news, you guys make it too easy!!

By: westi

westi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:06:32 +0000

This should make it even easier in WordPress 2.9 – http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11784

Examples of usage on the relevant ticket – http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10240