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February 4, 2020 at 3:57 pm #6945

directoryfan
Free User

Post count: 157

Hello Support Team,

each user in WP has a field for its own website. This link is used e.g. in the link of the author name in the comments widget.

Since UsersWP does the registration and the login, I miss this field and want to add it to the registration form. There are a lot of custom fields like facebook ,instagram, …. but no field for the website.

How should I add this field, since it is existent in WP and used in other places. I want, that the users can change this field through the account site of UsersWP or on registration.

Thank you for any help in advance!
Marius

February 4, 2020 at 10:32 pm #6959

Alex Rollin
Moderator

Post count: 27815

Hello,

you can use the “URL” custom field to add a new custom field. Then select ‘registration’.

Select the blue button to show the advanced options and choose “Include this field in register form”

February 5, 2020 at 2:18 pm #7003

directoryfan
Free User

Post count: 157

Hi Alex and thank you for your help!

Yes, I have used the custom fields and I like it very much to work and play with the v2.

I try to be more clear, I ask if there is a way how to override the existing website field of the author/user in WP.

First I decided for the role contributor, then changed to subscriber and UsersWP forms in order to reduce and simplify the user frontend. And now some users have the website link and others not. And I want to add this field with UsersWP and override the original in WordPress.

The existing UsersWP fields override other WP user fields like name, email, etc. Is there some reason, why there is no UsersWP custom field to override the WP user website field?

That website field value is used in the comments widget, when I click on the user name then I open its website. I think, that adding a link field, will not manage this functionality. Or am I wrong?

Thx

February 6, 2020 at 8:01 pm #7031

Alex Rollin
Moderator

Post count: 27815

All UsersWP data is stored in custom tables, so I don’t think that is possible without a customization.

I understand what you are trying to do though, to make it easier for logged in users to fill in the comments form.

I will ask the developers if there is a workaround to save the website field to the WP profile field.

February 7, 2020 at 7:05 am #7037

Patrik
Moderator

Post count: 1971

Hi,

This can be done using customization only but we will add this as a predefined field in the next update release.

Regards,
Patirk

February 7, 2020 at 2:06 pm #7054

directoryfan
Free User

Post count: 157

Thank you Alex and thank you Patrik for your help, answers and for taking this as feature request for the next update release!
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