However, one issue. I tired your radio button version and have registrators choose what 'gender' they are. It works perfect on profile pages. Now I would like it to automatically show that on each comments. Comment section are only for registered people. I did.....

For some reason, if admin choose "girl" every single people's gender goes "girl". I wonder if this is something to do with plugin conflicts. Thank you so much for all your help.

I note at the top of this tutorial that the new 2.9 functions are better for customizing the usermeta, but I haven't personally used them yet. I wonder if it's flexible enough to allow you to write out your own markup for the new fields? You look like you're ahead on that, so your guess is better than mine.

Never mind, so...
1.) Do you know about the changes for 2.9 and the contactmethods filter?


//Filter Profile Fields
function my_new_contactmethods( $contactmethods ) {
// add twitter
$contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter';
//add Facebook
$contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook';

return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods','my_new_contactmethods',10,1);


2.) Need to add a file upload feature for .docs and .pdfs to the user profile.

Been banging out code but can not get wp to store the file name nor upload the file to a directory.

Whatcha think?

PS: Check out wpcoop.org

Thanks Daniel Quinn,

Jayson

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/10/adding-and-using-custom-user-profile-fields

At Justin Adlock's blog, because he has a great tutorial about adding custom usermeta in 2.9 as we move toward 3.0.

And thank you(!) for making this tutorial. After Googling for a while, it seems that this is the best tutorial out there that teaches how to add custom user meta in Wordpress' profiles. So here's an Internet high five: http://www.ihighfive.com/

Thank you.

The checkbox usermeta is no different than other usermeta:
update_usermeta($user_id, 'penguins', ( isset($_POST['penguins']) ? $_POST['penguins'] : '' ) );


I've been struggling with the checkboxes for more than 2 hours now.

In your tutorial, it doesn't explain how to use the "update_usermeta" for the checkboxes, and that's exactly what I want to do.

I've tried using (in update_usermeta) the strings "potatoes[]", "potatoes", renaming everything, etc... nothing works.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Thanks

If the data's being saved in your database, that means that there's something wrong with the script that echoes it back to the front end. To troubleshoot, reduce your script to just 1 or 2 custom values and turn off all your plugins.

If it still doesn't work, please post a link to the script with just those two values so we can see where the logic is wrong.

I'm having some of the same issues others noted - custom user meta doesn't display in the profile – once the user enters it, it's being saved (because it shows up in the author template correctly) but isn't being displayed on the profile page that members have access to.

All the custom fields and labels are there, but they’re all blank. And if the user saves that blank profile, it writes over all saved information.

However, when I'm logged in as administrator and look at anyone’s profile, *all* the data is displayed correctly.

I removed the WP Hide Dashboard plugin thinking that might be the problem, but there wasn't any change.

I was hoping I was having the same problem that Rose was discussing in comments around Oct. 23, but no… Can you look at my .txt file and see if there's some terribly obvious problem with it?

http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/cr/my-custom-user-meta.txt

I *can* however view the custom meta in the admin backend, like when I edit a member profile in the MembersList section of the backend. But not in profile.php.

I think this is because of ilne 17 in the proof-of-concept snippet in step 5 - 'if ( is_admin() ) {'

I'm using the plugin WP Hide Dashboard to keep subscribers (members) from accessing my admin area. Is this why the custom user fields, limited by is_admin, are showing up as blanks for subscriber-level members? And if so, is there a conditional way to say 'if this is profile.php then display the custom user fields as entered' in my-custom-user-meta.php's functions?

Go ahead and copy the plugin from this page again, and it will work.

I just found another plugin for extending the profile however, it does it all with a single variable uep_meta which is not what I want.

Any ideas?

http://www.craftitonline.com/wp-content/plugins/my-custom-user-meta.php.txt

I thought that the reason that it was not saving the values for extra1 extra2 and extra3 was that they were not created in the database? But I did not see that step in the post. You also mentioned the use of register plus, but even when I install that and create those fields, this thing would not make sense for me.

Any ideas?


if ($user->industry == "Photography") {

}


$blogusers = get_users_of_blog(); //gets registered users
if ($blogusers) {
foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) {
$user = get_userdata($bloguser->user_id);
if ($user->industry='Photography') { echo "$user->company"; }
}
}
else { echo "Bizarrely, your blog appears to have no users. Something weird has happened."; }

Here's my code snippet for displaying a member's company name according to their industry (industry and company are two new meta fields I created using this plugin):

user_id);
if ($user->industry='Photography') {
echo "$user->company";
}
}
}
else { echo "Your blog appears to have no users..."; }
?>

This is very close to working in that it does correctly pull all the members out of the db and print the author meta 'company' field's value. But it's printing them for everyone and I want to restrict it by the value of the author meta 'industry' field - when 'industry' = 'something', print 'company.'

Any suggestions? I had no idea this would be so hard...

/* Initialise outselves */
add_action('plugins_loaded', create_function('','global $custom_user_meta_instance; $custom_user_meta_instance = new custom_user_meta();'));
?>


I did the trick, I see the fields on the admin back end profile page for users but when I hit save/update it wipes the field values away and they cannot be seen any longer. I doubt they get saved or stored.

help, appreciated.

Look forward to reading your post.

I have been working on extending the registration form with wordpressmu.

if you which to add fields to the form you put the html in a function and call it by
add_action('signup_extra_fields', 'registration_form', 1);
to validate it by using
add_filter('wpmu_validate_user_signup', 'registration_validation');

the current bit i'm working on is adding all the information to user meta data, once i have go this working i will post abut it.

You would just need to retrieve the fields you want in that function, and then maybe set them as global variables so you can access them in the pf_output_directory() function.

Thanks again for providing the plugin for us! Definitely a great holdover until 2.9 comes out.

I do have one question though. Do you know where I can look to be able to add one of my bits of custom meta to the users.php page - i.e. the page which lists the users? I'd like to add another column after "posts" which includes the new checkbox that I've implemented. Is this possible? Got any pointers?

Again, thanks for this! From a blustery, chilly, rainy Manchester, England.

These fields are "regular" in the sense that they're stored and managed in the database the same way the default fields for the profile are (no wonky extra tables or whatnot), but they are not custom fields (so you can't use get post custom meta to retrieve them), because custom fields are meta assigned to posts. Because these are author meta, you can use the default author meta functions to retrieve them in the loop.

(*edit* as for sorting, see Ruben's comment in this thread. He posted a solution on his blog, but you'll need to use Google Translate unless you speak Dutch.)

I'd tried RegisterPlus and CIMY but wasn't happy with either - this seems to be perfect.

One potentially dumb question: Is it possible to show the new profile fields in the registration form? wp-login.php?action=register... Or do I make my users register and *then* go to the profile form?

And, are these 'regular' custom fields so that I can do anything with them that I'd normally do with custom fields, like sorting?

echo "This is my Twitter name:";
the_author_meta('twitter');

Thanks for the quick response.

I will have a look into it and if I get anywhere will share the results with everyone else.

Thanks again mate

Giles

Thanks for this tutorial, its really helped me customise my blog the way i need to.

I was wondering though and
hopefully i didnt miss this but is there was anyway to only show users with certain roles such as just showing contributors etc or even better custom roles that are created with another plugin?

Thanks

Giles

Is there any way I can get the fields to show up on a post page like the single.php page

ie at the end of each post I want some of the extra author info to show.

Thanks!
B

I am hoping one of the approaches here is going to enable me to do the personalization of pages i am looking at with user meta data

Great Post! However I am trying to add the first name and last name fields onto the signup/register form? Any advice? I can't seem to find any good advice or reference for this. Any help would be great, thanks!

A question I have regarding this is the following. How can I list all the users sorted on one of the custom user meta fields?

I use the following query to retrieve all the users/members, but in that one I can only sort on: ID, user_login, user_nicename, user_email, user_url and user_registered and not on the userdata fields.

$szSort = "user_nicename";

$aUsersID = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare(
	"SELECT $wpdb->users.ID FROM $wpdb->users ORDER BY %s ASC"
	, $szSort ));

foreach ( $aUsersID as $iUserID ) :
	$user = get_userdata( $iUserID );
	echo ucwords( strtolower( $user->first_name ) );
endforeach;

if (is_user_logged_in()) {
     // get the database query
     global $wpdb;
     // 1. Figure out which user it is by comparing the user ID or some other unique identifier to the ID in the database.
     // 2. Use $wpdb->get_var("SQL goes here"); to retrieve the profile meta and populate the form for that user.
     // 4. Create your own validation (both front-end and server-side) and then hope it works.
     // 3. Use $wpdb->query($insert); (where $insert is the altered profile meta) to insert the data back.
}

So the form would be public (tied to a post), but they could change it later via their profile.

I was curious how much I would need to change/add in order to display a set of custom meta fields as a stand alone form within a post?

function action_show_user_profile() {
    global $user_id;

    if (!$user_id) {
    	$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
		//global $user_id;
		$user_id = $current_user->ID;

    }

This displays the new extra fields, but is not showing values.

I added debugging code on your AWESOME PIECE OF WORK, and it does not have access to $user_id.

However, it does save to the db somehow.

A thousand thank you's and a kajillion units of good karma if you can help.

You have taught me so much in this one article!

I am having issues though.

Logged in as a subscriber, Im unable to see my own extra field.

My value is saved in the db - took me an hour to see it - on page 2 of PhpMyadmin results...ugh.

AND - I can see it when I am logged in as an admin looking at the subscriber.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Judy

I guess my problem is a bit more inexperienced than that. I don't know how to properly echo the value. I have a value echoed in my author template for the radio buttons/checks/drop downs but because each one has multiple values I'm confused.

I'll explain: With text fields and text area fields it was easy. The name, id and value (after "get_author_meta" between the single quotes) were the same value:

[/php]

I could repeat that value in the process code at the bottom like this:

[php]update_usermeta($user_id, 'value', ( isset($_POST['value']) ? $_POST['value'] : '' ) );

but with radio buttons it's a whole new ball of wax. There's the name, id and value however each button in the group has a different value and id. Or does it? Isn't the value the meaning of the button? For example if there are two buttons and one represents "yes" and the other "no" then isn't the value for one yes and the other no? And then with the processing code, do I process them as a radio group and use the name/id/value for the group, or do I have to have something for each value and if so how do I echo that in the author template so that it shows yes or no for that particular question depending upon what the user filled out? Right now I just have it echoing the value for the group and all the values within the group are the same but the id is different:

<input type="radio" name="yesorno" value="" id="yesorno_1"><input type="radio" name="yesorno" value="" id="yesorno_2">

Then I process it with:

 function action_process_option_update() {
    global $user_id;
    update_usermeta($user_id, 'yesorno', ( isset($_POST['yesorno']) ? $_POST['yesorno'] : '' ) );

And then echo it with:

yesorno; ?>

I'm certain this is wrong but I'm sufficiently confused enough that I'm not sure how to handle it.

I'll explain: With text fields and text area fields it was easy. The name, id and value (after "get_author_meta" between the single quotes) were the same value:

[/php]

I could repeat that value in the process code at the bottom like this:

[php]update_usermeta($user_id, 'value', ( isset($_POST['value']) ? $_POST['value'] : '' ) );[php/]

but with radio buttons it's a whole new ball of wax. There's the name, id and value however each button in the group has a different value and id. Or does it? Isn't the value the meaning of the button? For example if there are two buttons and one represents "yes" and the other "no" then isn't the value for one yes and the other no? And then with the processing code, do I process them as a radio group and use the name/id/value for the group, or do I have to have something for each value and if so how do I echo that in the author template so that it shows yes or no for that particular question depending upon what the user filled out? Right now I just have it echoing the value for the group and all the values within the group are the same but the id is different:

[php]<input type="radio" name="yesorno" value="" id="yesorno_1"><input type="radio" name="yesorno" value="" id="yesorno_2">

Then I process it with:

 function action_process_option_update() {
    global $user_id;
    update_usermeta($user_id, 'yesorno', ( isset($_POST['yesorno']) ? $_POST['yesorno'] : '' ) );

And then echo it with:

yesorno; ?>

I'm certain this is wrong but I'm sufficiently confused enough that I'm not sure how to handle it.

Thanks for the tut! Implemented it perfectly!

Thanks for this great tutorial! One thing I don't know how to do is to get the extra fields to display on separate lines. Right now its displaying in sentence structure. Is this possible to do?

I hope I might also be able to ask another question. How do I correctly format radio buttons and checks? Those are the only fields that are still not working/not showing up/saving and think I may have something set up wrong with them. I put a new updated version of the file at the link I gave above.

        



            <input type="radio" name="abilityToMultitask" value="" id="abilityToMultitask_1">

          <input type="radio" name="abilityToMultitask" value="" id="abilityToMultitask_2">

          <input type="radio" name="abilityToMultitask" value="" id="abilityToMultitask_3">

          <input type="radio" name="abilityToMultitask" value="" id="abilityToMultitask_4">

          <input type="radio" name="abilityToMultitask" value="" id="abilityToMultitask_5">

<?php
echo "My test link.";
?>