Clean up the user profile of unused unwanted fields

The WP-Members plugin does not exercise any control over WordPress native fields as far as removing them from the User Profile. The plugin only determines if you are using these in the front-end elements of the plugin (such as front-side registration and front-side user profile). If you are not using a handful of these fields and would like to remove them from the User Profile (yoursite.com/wp-admin/user-edit.php), you can do that with a little bit of scripting in your functions.php file. Here are some examples.

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This topic has 9 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 7 months ago by msargenttrue.

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- May 3, 2013 at 2:29 pm #2540
  
  Chad Butler
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  The WP-Members plugin does not exercise any control over WordPress native fields as far as removing them from the User Profile. The plugin only deter
  [See the full post at: Clean up the user profile of unused unwanted fields]
- May 4, 2013 at 3:21 pm #2549
  
  robotballoon
  Participant
  
  Chad, this is just what I was looking for today– but when I pasted them into my child theme’s functions.php file, they didn’t work.
  
  Just read this to make sure I wasn’t pasting things in the wrong place:
  
  http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-pasting-snippets-from-the-web-into-wordpress/
  
  Any thoughts on why this wouldn’t be working on my child theme?
- May 4, 2013 at 4:17 pm #2551
  
  Chad Butler
  Keymaster
  
  When you paste them into your child theme, are they somewhere inside php delimiters ( <?php … ?> )
- May 9, 2013 at 9:15 pm #2564
  
  robotballoon
  Participant
  
  Well not sure why, but I tried pasting it in again into my functions.php file, just like I did before and this time it worked. Sorry for the false alarm.
- May 10, 2013 at 2:29 pm #2570
  
  Chad Butler
  Keymaster
  
  No problem! Glad it worked the second go-around.
  - January 22, 2014 at 6:19 pm #3922
    
    scarlettr8
    Participant
    
    Same problem here, doesn’t work. All it does is print the echo statement:
    
    jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(‘form#your-profile label[for=url], form#your-profile input#url’).hide(); $(‘form#your-profile label[for=description], form#your-profile textarea#description, form#your-profile span.description’).hide(); });
    
    Inside php tags, not inside another function, actual code pasted:
    
    add_action(‘admin_head’,’remove_url_bio’);
    function remove_url_bio(){
    echo “\n” . ‘jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
    $(\’form#your-profile label[for=url], form#your-profile input#url\’).hide();
    $(\’form#your-profile label[for=description], form#your-profile textarea#description, form#your-profile span.description\’).hide();
    });
    ‘ . “\n”;
    }
    - January 22, 2014 at 10:27 pm #3924
      Chad Butler
      Keymaster
      
      Thanks for your question because there is a problem with the script as displayed. It was actually not fully displaying. Evidently, there was an issue with the parser that I have displaying code snippets and it was not displaying the <script> tag – that was being read as HTML and not as a preformatted code snippet.
      
      So what you pasted there is what was displayed in the post, but it wasn’t totally correct. I’ve updated the code snippet manually in the post and it should be displaying correctly now. It should be as follows:
      
      add_action('admin_head','remove_url_bio'); function remove_url_bio(){ echo "\n" . '<script type="text/javascript">jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(\'form#your-profile label[for=url], form#your-profile input#url\').hide(); $(\'form#your-profile label[for=description], form#your-profile textarea#description, form#your-profile span.description\').hide(); }); </script>' . "\n"; }
- January 22, 2014 at 11:47 pm #3925
  
  scarlettr8
  Participant
  
  Beautiful, thanks. Was making me crazy as the previous poster said it worked 🙁
  - January 23, 2014 at 3:47 pm #3926
    
    Chad Butler
    Keymaster
    
    I thought that, too, but I’m thinking they had to have been referring to the other scripts.
    
    But I’m glad you commented because I would probably not have noticed the problem otherwise!
- July 16, 2014 at 4:01 pm #5370
  msargenttrue
  Participant
  I just tried hiding the Website and Bio fields. It works great, but it leaves the table rows that contain those hidden fields so I ended up with some unwanted empty space. I modified the code to also hide the parent table rows for both Website and Bio.
  
  This worked for me:
```
add_action('admin_head','remove_url_bio');
function remove_url_bio(){
	echo "\n" . '<script type="text/javascript">jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
	$(\'form#your-profile label[for=url], form#your-profile input#url\').hide();
	$(\'form#your-profile input#url\').parents(\'tr\').hide();
	$(\'form#your-profile label[for=description], form#your-profile textarea#description, form#your-profile span.description\').hide();
	$(\'form#your-profile textarea#description\').parents(\'tr\').hide();
	});
	</script>' . "\n";
}
```
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