Title: PROFILE customization hooks
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# PROFILE customization hooks

 *  Resolved [dberg89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dberg89/)
 * (@dberg89)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-customization-hooks/)
 * Hello,
    To override the plugin profile template I add /ultimate-member/templates/
   profile.php to my theme directory. That’s great, however, profile.php just calls
   actions from the core directory like um-actions-profile.php.
 * The question is…. if I want to change the layout of the user meta in the profile,
   how can I hook into um-actions-profile.php without changing the core file? I 
   can add a filter and hook into the individual functions, but how can I simply
   change one <div> with a filter call? Or do I have to re-write the entire function?
 * Thank you
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Champ Camba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/champsupertramp/)
 * (@champsupertramp)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-customization-hooks/#post-7405472)
 * Hi,
 * You will need to create a new function and remove the existing hook. If you want
   to add new filters to customize it, you can create a pull request in our public
   repository:
    [https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember](https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember)
 * Regards,
 *  Thread Starter [dberg89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dberg89/)
 * (@dberg89)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-customization-hooks/#post-7405477)
 * Hi
    Thank you for your response. I tried adding a remove_action(‘um_profile_header’,‘
   um_profile_header’, 9 ); in my functions.php but it’s not responding and continues
   to execute the profile header.
 * I tried remove_action(‘init’, ‘um_profile_header’, 9 ); thinking it needed to
   be hooked into init.
 * What am I missing?
 * Thank you
 *  Thread Starter [dberg89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dberg89/)
 * (@dberg89)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-customization-hooks/#post-7405628)
 * Hi
    I tried adding a remove_action(‘um_profile_header’, ‘um_profile_header’, 
   9 ); in my functions.php but it’s not responding and continues to execute the
   profile header.
 * I tried remove_action(‘init’, ‘um_profile_header’, 9 ); thinking it needed to
   be hooked into init.
 * What am I missing?
 * Thank you again
 *  Thread Starter [dberg89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dberg89/)
 * (@dberg89)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-customization-hooks/#post-7405675)
 * Issue solved if anyone else is interested in removing a core function.
 *     ```
       add_action ('init', 'remove_functions');
       function remove_functions () {
       	global $ultimatemember;
       	remove_action('um_profile_header', 'um_profile_header', 9 );
       }
       ```
   
 * note: priority has to match.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profile-customization-hooks/#post-7405675)
 * Status: resolved