Title: Customizing patron fields
Last modified: October 6, 2019

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# Customizing patron fields

 *  Resolved [juliamdupuis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliamdupuis/)
 * (@juliamdupuis)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-patron-fields/)
 * Hi. I’m considering Web Librarian to manage a small, physical library. One thing
   that we absolutely require is having patrons’ email addresses included in their
   profile. I think we can use the “extraname” field for this, but want to first
   confirm. Is this field restrictive to simple characters or will it allow @ for
   an email address to be entered? If it is restrictive, is there another way we
   can add or edit a field for email addresses?

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 *  Plugin Author [Robert Heller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertpheller/)
 * (@robertpheller)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-patron-fields/#post-12002861)
 * The plugin is set up to link patrons with WordPress “users”. You can create (
   or ask patrons to create) a WordPress user login. By default a WordPress user
   has no access beyond entering comments to pages and posts — just leave the “role”
   as “subscriber”. The WordPress user database includes the user’s E-Mail address(
   this is why I did not include the E-Mail address in the patron database). Also,
   if the patron has a WordPress login, the patron can place holds on books through
   the library’s website, as well as check on due dates and renew items on-line.
 * I don’t think the “extraname” is going to be large enough for an E-Mail address.
   There aren’t any partitular character restrictions, but it is not a large field,
   since generally middle names are either short, can be abbreviated or are just
   an initial.

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 * Last reply from: [Robert Heller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertpheller/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-patron-fields/#post-12002861)
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