Remove extra fields in user profile

Is there a way to remove the extra fields (social links) in the user profile? I can’t seem to figure out how all the extra fields are added. I don’t need them.

Thanks!

You would need to likely setup custom functions in your functions.php file – this has nothing to do with the theme. The user fields are built in to WordPress — so, you probably want to research this on the WordPress.org “codex” (documentation). Or simply Google “how to remove wordpress user fields…”

Thanks Chris. I have about 30 WP installs and the only 2 themes with the extra fields are Newspaper (addthis, behance, etc.). When I switch themes, the fields are gone. I’ll keep poking around when I have time.

Ah. You are correct … there *are* a lot of user fields there (!). I have a hunch you can likely remove those from the functions.php file, but perhaps Marius or Lucian will have the de-facto answer on that.

They are indeed Newspaper-specific. Somewhere or other td support gave this solution to add to your functions.php file; I’m now using it successfully:

remove_filter('user_contactmethods', 'extra_contact_info');

Mike… thanks for confirming. I tried one method of removal via functions.php before posting this but it didn’t work. Would be nice to add documentation about this and possibly backend supported to turn it off or on.

Thanks, medium. Worked like a champ!

Hi.

The

remove_filter(‘user_contactmethods’, ‘extra_contact_info’);

is not working anymore with Newspaper 6.

Any idea about how to remove the extra contact info added by the theme?

Thank you,

Hi,

Ive tried to put this code in functions.php and also in wp-booester, but doesnt change anything, how can I remove those fields? I cant seem to find any working code in the web also!

Hi,

With commenting out in child theme, nothing happened. It works when I comment out the file in the Theme Folder, but thats not so accurate because it might get overwritten after update! Any other chance? Thanks.

Hi

i commented the code specify in http://screencast.com/t/rWAjX7B1k but it didnt worked.. and giving error.. i have replaced the unedited file even though error is not going

Below is the error i am getting

Warning: require_once(td_global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/exploreheritage/public_html/wp-content/themes/exploreheritage/includes/wp_booster/td_wp_booster_functions.php on line 14

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘td_global.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php56/pear’) in /home/exploreheritage/public_html/wp-content/themes/exploreheritage/includes/wp_booster/td_wp_booster_functions.php on line 14