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Hi,

I was wondering why I don't see that much info about the possibillity to add the userinfo like address, surname and so on during the signup.

This would be nice, really when you moderate each signup, you are able to "check" the person.

I know this solution is there:

http://www.cimatti.it/blog/cimy-wordpress-plugins/cimy-user-extra-fields/

But I have the idea that this not fill the default "userinfo fields" under the profile that easy.

If someone has an idea, let me know.

OK, the link above does not work on MU actually.

Maybe there is another solution out there.

I was doing something similar and this post was a big help:
http://buddypress.com/code/finally-cracked-custom-field-validation-and-saving/

Hi Brian,

Yes I readed that too, but can't find a working solution yet.

Do you have some working code already that you would like to share ?

It might be interresting to "hook" your code up with this ?

http://www.dealsway.net/2007/11/05/wp-user-manager/

I would be nice to work something out, I'm checking a lot of stuff for days now.

Thanks.

"Thankfully the file does include three hooks that can help achieve what was needed: ’signup_extra_fields’, ‘preprocess_signup_form’ and ’signup_hidden_fields’."

Using those hooks that are in there, you can pretty much add whatever you want to signup.

Hi Andrea,

OK, let's do that than.

Than the plugin that I posted here should be not be that hard to manage working using those hooks.

I was using the following "plugin" for the backen which works very good on the user side.

http://www.ryuuguu.com/wordpress/2006/11/28/adding-extra-fields-to-wordpress-user-profiles/

The problem is that I don't see the filled in information when I also added the function for the admin (edit-user.php) so I can also see it there.

For now, I see both extra fields, at the users-admin side and the administrator side when you want to edit a user.

In the user-admin, I see the commingback information, in the admininistrator-admin I don't when I want to edit a user.

Strange is that when I do a <? echo $user_id; ?> at the edit-user.php somewhere and I edit a user as admin, I also see the ID of the user that I'm adding.

To add this part to the edit-user.php I have places a add_action for edit_user_profile in the extrafields.php which seems to work.

Now the information grabbing from the DB :)

Does no-one has some extra information about this, or this already working by himself ?

Would be nice to know.

OK after some good discussion the above userfields link does not seem to be a good way.

I have checked the way how BuddyPress would do it, but there is not much info about those functions around.

Are there any other options ?

Hi Mattz,

I have been searching for a solution for a couple days now and came across this thread.

Have you figured this out, I have also tried CIMY and http://www.ryuuguu.com/wordpress/2006/11/28/adding-extra-fields-to-wordpress-user-profiles/ , however I have not been able to get anything to work.

If you have found a solution and are willing to share, I would greatly appreciate it.

Hi,

This is a better solution so far:

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/force-registration-field/branches/fergcorp_forceRegistrationField_mu.igor.php

The only problem is that we need to be able that we can show the fields also in the user his profile, which can be done, but the admin needs to be able to see these details also.

Seperate what field will be on signup and what will be extra on his profile would be great of course !

No-one ever looked into this one again ?

OK, I'm figuring out the follwing:

Should we have 2 seperate plugins for this ?

- One for making textfields available in the user profile
- One for selecting what textfields should be available during the signup.

I don't want to be annoying, but I thought more people needed this ?

People already fixed this for themself ?

"People already fixed this for themself ?"

Pretty much. There are enough hooks within the code to it during signup, as well as in the admin area.

OK, but I don't see much people or fixes to "match" it on the admin side also.

What I see is that a user might be able to see his details, but when you take his backend over as a site-admin, his details are empty.

If people, or maybe you, have some good examples it would be nice.

I will add some tags so people can find it better in that case :)

Still no-one has a good solution for the backend ?

I was using the Buddypress part for profiles, but this doesn't fit what I want actually.

I thought buddypress was going to allow you to create and add in your own fields. At least that's how I understood how it was to work.

Yes true, but I saw some issues as I described in the buddypress topic.

Maybe we can make a seperate, not buddypress, plugin from it.

You maybe want to support my plug-in to reach MU support
http://www.marcocimmino.net/2009/01/21/cimy-user-extra-fields-for-wordpress-mu/