• Hi. So the Cimy User Extra Fields plugin isn’t really doing it for me so I am trying to develop the code to generate exactly what I want, which is as of right now, three more fields in the user profile form and in the user lookup tables. I have successfully added the three fields to the edit user profile form and can save the data. I have successfully added the three columns to the user lookup table. But what I can’t figure out for the life of me is how to populate the lookup table with the data from the edit form. Here is what I have in my functions.php so far:

    // ADDING CUSTOM USER FIELDS TO EDIT USER FORM
    
    add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'my_show_extra_profile_fields' );
    add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'my_show_extra_profile_fields' );
    
    function my_show_extra_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
    
    	<h3>Extra profile information</h3>
    
    	<table class="form-table">
    
    		<tr>
    			<th><label for="date">Date of Event</label></th>
    
    			<td>
    				<input type="date" name="date" id="date" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'date', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
    				<span class="description">Please enter the date of your event.</span>
    			</td>
    		</tr>
    
    <tr>
    			<th><label for="eventname">Event Name</label></th>
    
    			<td>
    				<input type="text" name="eventname" id="eventname" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'eventname', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
    				<span class="description">Please enter a unique nickname for your event.</span>
    			</td>
    		</tr>
    
    <tr>
    			<th><label for="dj">Assigned DJ</label></th>
    
    			<td>
    				<input type="text" name="dj" id="dj" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'dj', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
    				<span class="description">Please enter the assigned DJ.</span>
    			</td>
    		</tr>
    
    	</table>
    <?php }
    
    add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
    add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
    
    function my_save_extra_profile_fields( $user_id ) {
    
    	if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) )
    		return false;
    
    	update_usermeta( $user_id, 'date', $_POST['date'] );
    	update_usermeta( $user_id, 'eventname', $_POST['eventname'] );
    	update_usermeta( $user_id, 'dj', $_POST['dj'] );
    }
    
    // ADDING CUSTOM USER FIELDS TO USERS LIST
    
    add_action('manage_users_columns','kjl_modify_user_columns');
    function kjl_modify_user_columns($column_headers) {
      unset($column_headers['posts']);
      $column_headers["date"] = "Date of Event";
      $column_headers["eventname"] = "Event Name";
      $column_headers["dj"] = "DJ Assigned";
      return $column_headers;
    }
    
    add_filter('manage_users_columns','kjl_modify_user_columns');
    
    // POPULATING CUSTOM USER FIELDS IN USERS LIST

    My attempts at the last part has resulted in the site breaking so I haven’t pasted them here.

    Any ideas?

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  • hi Dani,

    have you thought of using a plugin such as Admin columns to show custom fields of users? the free version seems to work for me.

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