Adding and using custom user profile fields

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Thursday, 10 September 2009

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Since I’ve been playing around with user management a lot lately, I thought I’d share a simple technique I picked up. This technique will allow you to easily add new user profile fields that your blog’s users can use to input more information about themselves.
Management of these fields will be coming in a later version of my user management plugin, but some of you may want to do this now.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add an input box for a Twitter username and how to display it on your site, which will look a little something like this:
My profile and Twitter link
If you want to see a live example, check out one of my latests posts on Pop Critics.
Adding custom user fields
Open your theme’s functions.php file and drop this PHP code in:
add_action( ’show_user_profile’, ‘my_show_extra_profile_fields’ );
add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘my_show_extra_profile_fields’ );

function…

By: Justin Tadlock
From: Justin Tadlock » WordPress Tutorials

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