Title: Problem adding custom user registration fields
Last modified: August 8, 2017

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# Problem adding custom user registration fields

 *  [warbirdgames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warbirdgames/)
 * (@warbirdgames)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-custom-user-registration-fields/)
 * I’ve got a custom field, which I’ve successfully implemented in the profile editor
   and it retrieves a list of options from a database and displays the user’s current
   setting and allows you to save a new setting. So that’s all fine. My problem 
   is in trying to add that field to the user registration page. I’ve followed the
   instructions in the Codex and in several tutorials, using the three hooks they
   say I need, but I’m seeing no change on the user registration page at all.
 * I’m adding the following code into the theme’s functions.php (just under the 
   code I added to display the new field on the profile editor page).
 * I haven’t finished adding customization code, so I know it isn’t 100% working
   yet, but I can’t even get it to display the field. Anyone have any idea what 
   I might be doing wrong here?
 *     ```
       //Custom Registration Form Fields
   
       //1. Add a new form element...
       add_action( 'register_form', 'et_register_form' );
       function et_register_form()
       {
       	//$location = ( ! empty( $_POST['location'] ) ) ? trim( $_POST['location'] ) : '';
       		?>
       		<p>
       			<label for="location">Location<br />
       				<input type="text" name="location" id="location" class="input" value="baytown" size="25" />
       			</label>
       		</p>
       		<?php
       }
   
       //2. Add validation. In this case, we make sure location is required.
       add_filter( 'registration_errors', 'et_registration_errors', 10, 3 );
       function et_registration_errors( $errors, $sanitized_user_login, $user_email )
       {
   
       	if ( empty( $_POST['location'] ) || ! empty( $_POST['location'] ) && trim( $_POST['location'] ) == '' )
       	{
       		$errors->add( 'location_error', 'You must include a location!' );
       	}
       	return $errors;
       }
   
       //3. Finally, save our extra registration user meta.
       add_action( 'user_register', 'et_user_register' );
       function et_user_register( $user_id )
       {
       	if ( ! empty( $_POST['location'] ) )
       	{
       		update_user_meta( $user_id, 'location', trim( $_POST['location'] ) );
       	}
       }
       ```
   

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-custom-user-registration-fields/#post-9395421)
 * The part that displays the field works fine on my site. There’s nothing wrong
   with it. I didn’t test further since this is the problem you are currently facing.
   Does your site have a custom login form? Your code may only work on the default
   form accessed through _wp-login.php?action=register_ when this URL is not redirected
   to any custom form.
 * If you are using the default form and not seeing a field, it may be other code
   is inappropriately using the same action in a way that prevents your action from
   working. If you revert your site to the default state (except for your own code
   posted here), you should see your code works fine. Restore your normal state,
   one module at a time. When the field disappears again, the last activated module
   is messing with the action somehow.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-custom-user-registration-fields/#post-9395421)
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