Title: Hide User Profile Fields
Author: gugabguerra
Published: <strong>August 3, 2012</strong>
Last modified: August 3, 2012

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Hide User Profile Fields

 By [gugabguerra](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gugabguerra/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hide-user-profile-fields.1.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-user-profile-fields/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-user-profile-fields/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-user-profile-fields/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-user-profile-fields/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-user-profile-fields/)

## Description

A simple plugin with no-backend interface, to clean up some dummy fields from user
profiles edition and creation pages, focused on corporate purposes. The following
fields are removed right after this plugin activation: Colors Profile, Keyboard 
Shortcuts, Toolbar, AIM, Jabber, Yahoo IM, Website URL, Biography Description and
User Role (every new user is created as Subscriber)
 Some contents was inspired 
on teachingyou.net

## Screenshots

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 * Before installation and activation of Hide User Profile Fields plugin.
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 * After installation and activation of Hide User Profile Fields plugin.

## Installation

 1. Upload `hide-user-fields.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Navigate to the ‘Hide User Profile Fields’ Settings menu and enable it.

## FAQ

  How do I enable this plugin?

Once the plugin itself is installed, navigate to the ‘Hide User-Profile Fields’ 
Settings menu, check the lone checkbox, and click ‘Update Options’.

  How can I hide/unhide some specific fields?

You can’t, not through this plugin, but you can edit this as your needs.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Excellent but not for non programmers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-but-not-for-non-programmers/)󠁿

 [rafi.w](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rafiw-1/) September 3, 2016

Very good basis for hiding items on your profile. This plugin must be a result of
lots of research work, on how to hide items on the profile page. Using browser’s“
inspect” feature, you can find the individual fields info and edit the plugin accordingly
to hide them.

 [ Read all 6 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-user-profile-fields/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Hide User Profile Fields” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ gugabguerra ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gugabguerra/)

[Translate “Hide User Profile Fields” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-user-profile-fields)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-user-profile-fields/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hide-user-profile-fields/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-user-profile-fields/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-user-profile-fields/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2

 * Color Profiles and other checkboxes will also be hidden on this version.

#### 1.0.0

 * First published version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-user-profile-fields/)
 * Tags
 * [aim](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/aim/)[fields](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/fields/)
   [hide](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hide/)[user profile](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user-profile/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-user-profile-fields/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.8 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-user-profile-fields/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  2 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-user-profile-fields/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-user-profile-fields/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ gugabguerra ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gugabguerra/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-user-profile-fields/)

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