Custom Fields in Default Profile Form and User/Account settings
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Hi!
I recently set up the ultimate member plugin and everything seems to work great but I am running into some issues in displaying custom fields. I was able to display a custom field through the Default Profile Form in the Edit Profile and User Page but I cannot populate them into the User’s Account Page. I want to do this so that all the information is present on one page for the user.
Additionally, can the Default Profile Form display username, password and email to be edited or can that only be edited from My Account? Can a user edit their username from either the Default Profile Form or My Account with any settings changes? These fields are not showing in the live view or the form itself despite being active fields.
Thank you!
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Hello @mslaza77,
There is no way to add custom fields directly to the Account form. You need to use custom code to do this, see examples in the article How to display custom fields in Account. You also can use a free extension Ultimate Member – Account tabs to embed the profile form into the custom account tab.
Some fields are blacklist in profile because of security reasons. You can add a custom function to the hook
um_user_profile_restricted_edit_fieldsto allow the email field in profile. You can find a code snippet in the documentation to this hook. But this is useless if you’ll use the Account page only. The E-mail Address field is a built-in account field.There is no tool to edit a password in profiles because this page is public. There is the Password Change tool in Account that is a private page.
The Username (user_login) is displayed in Account. There is no way to edit this field because this is a thing that defines the user. Another username – another person.
Read the Account Tab article to get know how to enable/disable account features.
Regards
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