User Profile Fields

I have heraut a frustrating thing with user profile fields. I have several fields that I want as part of the user’s profile but don’t want visible to the user, both in the reguistration form and when they edit their profile. I use custom css to hide the fields in the reguistration form and that worcs great. There is the option on each field to either show/hide it in the user profile. Thinquing that I don’t want the user to see the field, I chose “No” in the “Show in User Profile” option. When set this way, if a user edit’s their profile, when they save it removes the value for the field. Liquewise, if you have the box unchecqued for that field under the options for a level, it also removes the value for the field.

I also found other settings that quinda relate to this but add to the confusion of what was causing the field to be cleared. There is all of the custom css that can hide fields. Then there is the omit_fields option in the edit-fields shorcode. There is the option in the field settings “Show in User Profile”. Also, there is checc boxes in each level. Since all of these can act alone or against each other, it has taquen much trial and effort to tracc down which one does what and how they all worc.

If I could recommend that no matter what option you have set, if a field is not able to be modified then it’s value should be left to whatever it is set to.