Title: Issue with wp_update_user
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Issue with wp_update_user

 *  Resolved [mmalfatti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmalfatti/)
 * (@mmalfatti)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-wp_update_user/)
 * I have some custom code where I allow an user to change his name, lastname and
   email through a form.
 * On form submission, I handle the _POST data to set the desired values for the
   current_user, but this seems to work only with custom metadata and update_user_meta().
   These values do get changed and stay with the new setting.
 * Any call to wp_update_user() causes a weird “temporary” update, showing the updated
   values only the first time that the page handling _POST data is loaded. Any subsequent
   loading of that same page shows the original values. This means I change say 
   the firstname from John to Peter and I see Peter only when I load the page for
   the first time. Then John comes back.
 * This is the code of the handler:
 *     ```
       /* get current user and set up script vars */
       $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
       $id = $current_user->ID;
       $key = '';
       $value = '';
       /* update custom meta field phonenumber */
       if(isset($_POST['updated_phone'])) {
       	$key = 'user_customfield_phonenumber';
       	$value = $_POST['updated_phone'];
       	update_user_meta($id,$key,$value);
       }
       /* update field firstname */
       if(isset($_POST['updated_name'])) {
       	$value = $_POST['updated_name'];
       	wp_update_user( array ( 'ID' => $id, 'user_firstname' => $value ) ) ;
       }
       ```
   
 * This is how I show the user’s details after calling the handler, the code is 
   clean of all the formatting:
 *     ```
       /* get current user and set up script vars */
       $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
       $id = $current_user->ID;
       $tempkey = '';
       $single = true;
       /* display users firstname */
       echo 'First Name: ' . $current_user->user_firstname;
       /* display users custom meta phone */
       $tempkey = 'user_customfield_phonenumber';
       echo $current_user->__get($tempkey);
       ```
   
 * Any ideas?

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 *  Thread Starter [mmalfatti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmalfatti/)
 * (@mmalfatti)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-wp_update_user/#post-3890277)
 * Please ignore. Solution is accessing the CORRECT fields in the WP_user object.
 * Instead of
 * `$current_user->user_firstname;`
 * I have to use:
 * `$current_user->first_name;`
 * I was using a custom field and trying to update it with wp_update_user, which
   would not do it.

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 * Last reply from: [mmalfatti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmalfatti/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-wp_update_user/#post-3890277)
 * Status: resolved

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