User Profile Fields

[jaycanuck]

Hi. I followed your instructions on role-editor.com/hide-disable-wordpress-user-profile-fields/ to disable elements of an author’s user profile (authors don’t need everything that’s there)

I unfortunately get a “syntax error, unexpected ‘global’ (T_GLOBAL)” error when saving my functions.php

This is the code I’m putting in:

function user_profile_fields_disable() {
 
global $pagenow;
 
// apply only to user profile or user edit pages
if ($pagenow!==’profile.php’ && $pagenow!==’user-edit.php’) {
return;
}
 
// do not change anything for the administrator
if (current_user_can(‘administrator’)) {
return;
}
if (current_user_can(‘custom_role’) {
add_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘user_profile_fields_disable_js’ );
}
}

/**
* Disables selected fields in WP Admin user profile (profile.php, user-edit.php)
*/
function user_profile_fields_disable_js() {
?>
<script>
jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
var fields_to_disable = [‘role’, ‘facebook’, ‘twitter’, ‘additional_profile_urls’, ‘wp-user-avatar-existing,];
for(i=0; i<fields_to_disable.length; i++) {
if ( $(‘#’+ fields_to_disable[i]).length ) {
$(‘#’+ fields_to_disable[i]).attr(“disabled”, “disabled”);
}
}
});
</script>
<?php
}

[Vladimir]

I see 2 possible problems in the code above:
1) Look if single quote “‘” is not replaced at your copy with other characters;
2) at the JavaScript code line
var fields_to_disable = ['role', 'facebook', 'twitter', 'additional_profile_urls', 'wp-user-avatar-existing,];
there is a syntax error. Replace the ‘,’ at the end with missed “‘” (closing single quote) character, like below:
var fields_to_disable = ['role', 'facebook', 'twitter', 'additional_profile_urls', 'wp-user-avatar-existing'];

[Vladimir]

If you will need further help, send or share via Google Drive a modified functions.php file. I will check its syntax.

[jaycanuck]

Hi Vladimir. Thanks for helping me with this. Here is the link:

[link removed]

It’s now giving me this syntax error:

Your PHP code changes were rolled back due to an error on line 234. Please fix and try saving again. This would be this line:

234 – add_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘user_profile_fields_disable_js’ );

[Vladimir]

Hi,

Syntax error is at the prev line – missed closing bracket ‘)’ after (‘custom_role’). It should be:

    if (current_user_can('custom_role')) {
      add_action( 'admin_footer', 'user_profile_fields_disable_js' );
    }      

[jaycanuck]

Hi Vladimir. Thanks for this.

So, this code follows the instructions to hide fields in the user profile area. When I enter in the field IDs though….they are still there in the author role.

I uploaded the new code with your changes and some of the fields I’m trying to hide, to the Google Drive. Am I missing something?

[Vladimir]

Send the link to a new code version to support [at-sign] role-editor.com

[jaycanuck]

Thanks Vladimir. I sent an email to you.

[Vladimir]

In the provided piece of code the key line is missed:

add_action('admin_init', 'user_profile_fields_disable');

It links your function to the hook which executes it.

Also pay attention that JavaScript code disables only input fields. It can not disable any other visible element. If you wish to hide some element on a page you should use another jQuery code, like

jQuery('#div_id').hide();

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