Title: I need help with adding column to WordPress database
Last modified: December 4, 2018

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# I need help with adding column to WordPress database

 *  [sunmoluvic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunmoluvic/)
 * (@sunmoluvic)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-need-help-with-adding-column-to-wordpress-database/)
 * I have searched the WordPress plugin directory to see if I’ll find a plugin that
   will do what i want but didn’t find one
    But I found a plugin that does 50% of
   what I want And I want to add the rest of the features to the plugin, I’m not
   that good in developing with WordPress but I have little experience. This feature
   requires adding a column to the plugin’s database. What I want the column to 
   is is It should be functional for all registered user, I mean every registered
   user on my WordPress site should have theirs, e.g each user should have their
   own account balance I should be able to modify it for each user with a php code.
   And it should only support numbers
 * How do I add this to the database?

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-need-help-with-adding-column-to-wordpress-database/#post-10947060)
 * You don’t really need a new column, and it’s better for compatibility with other
   plugins if you don’t add one.
    The users are stored in the user table, but most
   of the data about the user is stored in the user meta table. So all you have 
   to do is add the data to the existing user meta table. Read some of the code 
   reference: [user_meta reference](https://developer.wordpress.org/?s=user_meta)

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-need-help-with-adding-column-to-wordpress-database/#post-10947060)
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