The User Registration Add-on: Limitation? Isn't that the whole point?

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harringtoncreative
Member

So I was laughing a bit earlier when implementing the User Registration Add-on into my site... it seemed like the perfect way to use GF and expand the User profile.

Then I read what the limitation of the Add-on is:

Limitations
The User Registration Add-on v1.0 does not automatically add custom meta fields to the WordPress user profile page.

Isn't that the whole point of an Add-on like this? Why else would you use something other than then default registration of "usename" and "email"?

What that being said... is there another way to expand the user profile with extra meta boxes?

Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday October 11, 2011 | Permalink
David Smith
Member

Hi Harrington,

You can add custom profile fields following this tutorial:

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/10/adding-and-using-custom-user-profile-fields

This is something we'd like to automatically provide in the plugin itself; however, we have not yet decided on the best way to implement this functionality.

Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday October 11, 2011 | Permalink
advantageim
Member

In adding the custom profile fields, how do I get them to integrate with the GF UR add-on? do specific variables need to be used or anything like that? Essentially how do I map the GF field to the profile field?

Posted 13 years ago on Friday October 14, 2011 | Permalink
David Smith
Member
When you create your custom user meta keys, you just use those same keys when retrieving for the user meta for editing and saving in Justin's script.

Example: http://grab.by/b3Uv = "my_user_meta"

So to retrieve the value for that meta key you would do:
```
[php]
get_the_author_meta( 'my_user_meta', $user->ID );
```
Posted 13 years ago on Friday October 14, 2011 | Permalink
advantageim
Member

Sorry, perhaps I'm just not understanding what you're saying. I understand how it works with the scripting for the plugin, but how do I determine the "my_user_meta" name from what I'm inputting into Gravity Forms. For example, I am using the Address input from GF. That means that I need to create custom user fields for Street Address, City, State, and Zip in the wordpress backend. How do I add/determine what the "my_user_meta" value is from GF. Is there somewhere in the backend that I need to specify what that value is? Is it the name? etc.

Sorry, I hope that what I'm saying makes sense.

Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday November 2, 2011 | Permalink
advantageim
Member

Nevermind. I think I have it figured out.

Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday November 2, 2011 | Permalink
advantageim
Member

I have what you were talking about figured out regarding to setting it up (I didn't think about actually looking in the User Registration section). But using the same meta_user_data in both spots, it still isn't coming over. Any thoughts?

Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday November 2, 2011 | Permalink
Justin
Member

Hi Advantageim, I'm trying to accomplish the same thing you are, I'm looking into some other options as well, lets keep eachother posted if one of us comes up with a solution.

My goal is to dynamically pull the GF User Meta info onto the user profile page so admins can view this extra information from the back-end.

Cheers,
- Justin

Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday November 2, 2011 | Permalink
David Smith
Member

Hi Advantageim,

Is it possible to share a pastie with your code and a screengrab of your full User Registration feed?

Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday November 2, 2011 | Permalink