I am having an issue with adding custom fields to the wordpress user profile and having the inputted fields show on the front of the site. Using the below tutorial I thought I had it working, however noticed that actually it only works for ONE user, then all of the others don’t work, this is what is confusing me as I am used to things either working, or not working, whereas this works for the first user I tried it for, but no others.
I have looked high and low trying different things to no avail.
My purpose for this is to allow multiple wordpress users to add their Google+ profile to the wordpress head on posts BY that specific author with the rel attribute.
Here is the tutorial I have used
http://bavotasan.com/2009/adding-extra-fields-to-the-wordpress-user-profile/
Here is the code I am using for the function
1 – This adds the field to the user profile
/* Add Additional Fields to Author Profile */
add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'my_show_extra_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'my_show_extra_profile_fields' );
function my_show_extra_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
<h3>Extra profile information</h3>
<table class="form-table">
<tr>
<th><label for="u-profs">Profile Info</label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="u-profs" id="u-profs" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'u-profs', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
<span class="description">Enter Your Profile Info.</span>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="u-profs2" id="u-profs2" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'u-profs2', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
<span class="description">Enter Your Google+ Url.</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php }
add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
foreach($user_ids as $user_id){
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'u-profs2', $_POST['u-profs2'] );
}
function my_save_extra_profile_fields( $user_id ) {
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) )
return false;
/* Copy and paste this line for additional fields. Make sure to change 'u-profs' to the field ID. */
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'u-profs', $_POST['u-profs'] );
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'u-profs2', $_POST['u-profs2'] );
}
2 – This gets the field content and adds it to the wp_head of wordpress
/* Google Rel Author */
function google_rel_author_in_document_head() {
echo '<link rel="author" href="' . get_the_author_meta('u-profs2') . '"/>';
}
add_action('wp_head', 'google_rel_author_in_document_head',99);
This link on StackOverflow seems to be a similar problem but is unresolved…
Right I found the working code in the end…