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How to Remove Default Author Profile Fields in WordPress

Last updated on June 21st, 2012 by Editorial Staff
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How to Remove Default Author Profile Fields in WordPress

Upon the release of WordPress 2.9, we shared with you an article that shows you how to add fields like twitter and facebook to author profile page. In this article we will show you how you can remove unwanted default author profile fields to make WordPress admin panel more user friendly for your clients.

How to Remove Default Author Profile Fields in WordPress

As you can see, we do not want to keep AIM, Yahoo IM, and Jabber/Gtalk. If you are dealing with very new level clients, then you do not want them to see this. It will only complicate things for them. To remove these default fields simply open your theme’s functions.php file and add the following code:

    <?php
    add_filter('user_contactmethods','hide_profile_fields',10,1);

    function hide_profile_fields( $contactmethods ) {
    unset($contactmethods['aim']);
    unset($contactmethods['jabber']);
    unset($contactmethods['yim']);
    return $contactmethods;
    }
    ?>

This will remove the contact methods like AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo IM. Now if you want to add fields then you should check out our article that talks about adding author profile fields in WordPress.

Source: Strangework by Brad Williams

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  1. VenkatEswaran says:
    Dec 19, 2011 at 7:02 am

    this is how my fields look

    function extra_contact_info($contactmethods)

    {

    unset($contactmethods[‘aim’]); unset($contactmethods[‘yim’]); unset($contactmethods[‘jabber’]); unset($contactmethods[‘website’]); $contactmethods[‘facebook’] = ‘Facebook’;

    $contactmethods[‘twitter’] = ‘Twitter’;

    $contactmethods[‘linkedin’] = ‘LinkedIn’;

    $contactmethods[‘google_profile’] = ‘Google Profile URL’;

    $contactmethods[‘Adsense’] = ‘Adsense’;

    $contactmethods[‘Adsense250’] = ‘Google_ad_slot250*250 Code’; $contactmethods[‘Adsense300’] = ‘Google_ad_slot300*250’;

    return $contactmethods;

    }

    add_filter(‘user_contactmethods’, ‘extra_contact_info’);

    I used to get them with this code in my post

    <?php the_author_meta( ‘twitter’ ); ?>

    <?php the_author_meta( ‘facebook’ ); ?>

    it works perfect but when i get this in my adsence code there is no ads coming

    <?php the_author_meta( ‘Adsense’ ); ?>

    <script type=”text/javascript”>

    <!– google_ad_client = “<?php the_author_meta( ‘Adsense’ ); ?>”;

    /* 250×250,created 8/15/11 */

    google_ad_slot = “1738948625”;

    google_ad_width = 250;

    google_ad_height = 250;

    //–> </script>

    <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>

    </script>

    can u please help me on this

    Reply
  2. VenkatEswaran says:
    Dec 19, 2011 at 6:49 am

    how to remove the website

    Reply
  3. OneWorld says:
    Dec 4, 2011 at 11:22 am

    That code raises in WP 3.2.1 following warnings. It removes those 3 entries though:

    Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘hide_profile_fields’ was given in /wp/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 170 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp/wp-admin/includes/user.php on line 230

    Reply
    • OneWorld says:
      Dec 4, 2011 at 11:36 am

      I fixed it now. It had nothing to do with this code. I just put the “add_filter”-method into the __construct method and forgot to make the function public.

      Other fix could have been (see “array(&$this”…:

      add_action(‘user_contactmethods’, array(&$this,’my_function’));

      @OneWorld

      Reply
  4. Michelle says:
    Apr 19, 2010 at 12:04 pm

    This is yet another example of the valuable information available at WP Beginner. Thanks guys.

    Reply
  5. Andrew says:
    Apr 15, 2010 at 11:27 am

    This is great. I’ve already implemented it on two sites. Thanks so much!

    Reply
  6. gifer says:
    Apr 15, 2010 at 9:09 am

    aah excellent post, thanks a lot :)

    I think wp should remove these by themself,
    why aim,jabber lol they should add facebook and twitter :P

    Reply
  7. Tony Dunsworth says:
    Apr 15, 2010 at 8:23 am

    Thanks for this one guys. We restrict all of this so this is a perfect tool to ensure we don’t have to see it either.

    Reply
  8. Mad Mike says:
    Apr 14, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    This is yet another example of the valuable information available at WP Beginner. Thanks guys.

    Reply

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