Title: Display custom user text
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Display custom user text

 *  [toho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toho/)
 * (@toho)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-custom-user-text/)
 * Hi All!
 * I would like to ask you how can I go about getting text data from user and then
   displaying this custom per user text on their account page. Can I use custom 
   fields for this? Should I write my own plugin or something similar already exist?
 * I will appreciate your help. I don’t expect full solution, just looking to be
   pointed a direction. I did some research, but couldn’t find anything about this
   specific problem.
 * Have a great day!

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 *  [Ryan Sechrest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sovereign/)
 * (@sovereign)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-custom-user-text/#post-5609306)
 * To clarify, this is a user who is logged into WordPress and the account page 
   you mentioned is `wp-admin/profile.php`?
 * If so, you’re looking to add additional fields to that profile page for the user
   to edit?
 *  Thread Starter [toho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toho/)
 * (@toho)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-custom-user-text/#post-5609307)
 * Thank you for reply. Yes user is logged into WordPress, but account page is just
   a normal page that I modified, so it displays user account information. I have
   disabled access for users to wp-admin area.
 * I am making simple coaching website, the idea is that user can input his goal
   in a form of a text and it will display on his account page or training page (
   both being normal WordPress pages)
 *  [Ryan Sechrest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sovereign/)
 * (@sovereign)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-custom-user-text/#post-5609313)
 * You can read and store any additional information via [`get_user_meta`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta)
   and [`update_user_meta`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_meta)
   respectively.
 * Since you must have access to the user ID on your account page, that info can
   be retrieved via something like:
 * `get_user_meta($user_id, $key);`
 * And you save/update it by using:
 * `update_user_meta($user_id, $key, $value);`
 * You can add additional fields on the user’s profile page using the [`edit_user_profile`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/edit_user_profile)
   hook and then save them using the [`edit_user_profile_update`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/edit_user_profile_update)
   hook.
 *  Thread Starter [toho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toho/)
 * (@toho)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-custom-user-text/#post-5609343)
 * Thank you very much! This will be much easier than I originally thought 🙂

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 * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-custom-user-text/#post-5609343)
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