[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #10209: user - additional fields / removing unnecessary fields

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#10209: user - additional fields / removing unnecessary fields
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 Reporter:  F J Kaiser                                         |        Owner:                
     Type:  feature request                                    |       Status:  reopened      
 Priority:  low                                                |    Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Users                                              |      Version:  2.7.1         
 Severity:  normal                                             |   Resolution:                
 Keywords:  user, additional, field, extra, data, unnecessary  |  
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Comment(by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 I think that part of the problem is that nobody's understanding what you
 wanted. I had to think for about 10 minutes on your other ticket in order
 to rephrase what you wrote in a straightforward sentence, and I'm still
 not making any sense of this beyond that you had missed the new
 the_author_meta().

 I'm assuming you're meaning it should be possible to add an author meta
 using a form like the one in posts. If so, be so kind to keep the ticket
 closed. That thing is cruft that has been left behind and that has yet to
 be eliminated. It is not possible (yet) to have multiple metas with the
 same keys. There is no notion of hidden user meta. And it would introduce
 potential security issues -- among other things, you could change your
 role to that of administrator, and I dare not imagine the implications for
 membership-related plugins.

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