Title: Update User Fields from frontend
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Update User Fields from frontend

 *  [edeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edeb/)
 * (@edeb)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-user-fields-from-frontend/)
 * Hello everybody,
 * I’d like that my users can update their informations from frontend overriding
   the previous ones, of course. For example I’ve inserted a “bio” input inside 
   their frontend profiles which should override the core WordPress user bio. This
   is the code.
 *     ```
       $description = trim($_POST['user_description']);
       update_user_meta($uid, 'user_description', $description);
       ```
   
 * and in html code:
 * `<p><textarea rows="5" name="user_description" class="do_input info-description"
   placeholder="<?php echo __('Insert a brief presentation of yourself.','ProjectTheme');?
   >"><?php echo get_usermeta($uid,'user_description',true); ?></textarea></p>`
 * What am I doing wrong?
    Thanks. Emanuele.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-user-fields-from-frontend/)
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