Snippet: Add Extra User Profile Fields

This is the next step to our previous snippet “Add Custom User Profile Fields” where user can only add text fields to user’s profile. Now, we will proceed further and tell you how you can add any type of field in your profile. We are going to add country (a select field), gender (a radio field) and cell number (a text field).

Usage

get_user_meta($user_id, 'user_country', true);
get_user_meta($user_id, 'user_gender', true);
get_user_meta($user_id, 'user_cell', true);

Snippet

function custom_user_profile_fields($user) {
    global $neu_utility;
    $country = esc_attr(get_the_author_meta('user_country', $user->ID));
    $cell = esc_attr(get_the_author_meta('user_cell', $user->ID));
    $gender= esc_attr(get_the_author_meta('user_gender', $user->ID));
    
    ?>
    <h3><?php _e('Extra User Fields', 'your_domain'); ?></h3>
    <table class="form-table">
        <tr>
            <th>
                <label for="user_country"><?php _e('Country', 'your_domain'); ?>
                </label></th>
            <td>
                <select name="user_country" id="user_country" >
                    <option value="United States" <?=($country=='United States') ? 'selected="selected"':''?> >United States</option>
                    <option value="UK" <?=($country=='UK') ? 'selected="selected"':''?> >United Kingdom</option>
                    <option value="Canada" <?=($country=='Canada') ? 'selected="selected"':''?> >Canada</option>
                    <option value="Australia" <?=($country=='Australia') ? 'selected="selected"':''?> >Australia</option>
                    <option value="Germany" <?=($country=='Germany') ? 'selected="selected"':''?> >Germany</option>
                </select>
                <br />
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th>
                <label for="user_gender"><?php _e('Gender', 'your_domain'); ?>
                </label></th>
            <td>
                <input type="radio" name="user_gender" value="Male" <?=($gender=='Male') ? 'checked="checked"':''?> >Male<br/>
                <input type="radio" name="user_gender" value="Female" <?=($gender=='Female') ? 'checked="checked"':''?> >Female
                <br />
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th>
                <label for="user_cell"><?php _e('Cell Number', 'your_domain'); ?>
                </label></th>
            <td>
                <input type="text" name="user_cell" id="user_city" value="<?=$cell ?>" class="regular-text">
                <br />
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
<?php
}

function save_custom_user_profile_fields($user_id) {
    if (!current_user_can('edit_user', $user_id))
        return FALSE;
    update_usermeta($user_id, 'user_country', $_POST['user_country']);
    update_usermeta($user_id, 'user_gender', $_POST['user_gender']);
    update_usermeta($user_id, 'user_cell', $_POST['user_cell']);
}

add_action('show_user_profile', 'custom_user_profile_fields');
add_action('edit_user_profile', 'custom_user_profile_fields');
add_action('personal_options_update', 'save_custom_user_profile_fields');
add_action('edit_user_profile_update', 'save_custom_user_profile_fields');