Upon the discharge of WordPress 2.9, we shared with you an article that exhibits you how to add fields like twitter and facebook to author profile page. On this article we'll present you how one can take away undesirable default creator profile fields to make WordPress admin panel extra person pleasant to your purchasers.
As you possibly can see, we don't need to maintain AIM, Yahoo IM, and Jabber/Gtalk. In case you are coping with very new degree purchasers, then you don't want them to see this. It should solely complicate issues for them. To take away these default fields merely open your theme’s capabilities.php file and add the next code:
<?php
add_filter('user_contactmethods','hide_profile_fields',10,1);
perform hide_profile_fields( $contactmethods )
?>
This can take away the contact strategies like AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo IM. Now if you wish to add fields then you must try our article that talks about adding author profile fields in WordPress.
Supply: Strangework by Brad Williams
