What's the best way to customize the member profile page fields?

[xberg]

Hi,

I want to add extra fields, links, drop-downs, photos and buttons to the member-profile page. What’s the best way to do this without breaking the upgrade-ability of eMember?

thank you!

[wzp]

What’s the best way to do this without breaking the upgrade-ability of eMember?

The WP eMember Form Builder Addon (Extension) maybe helpful for you. Take a look to see if that will work for you:

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/wp-emember-form-builder-addon-extension-760?ap_id=TheAssurer

[xberg]

Hi,

We already completely built the profile page a few years ago on the eMember platform.

The problem is that we customised the following code:

wp-contentpluginswp-eMembereMember_profile_utils.php

So we have been unable to upgrade eMember in quite a while! I want to restart everything and customise eMember in a way that does not break our ability to upgrade eMemeber.

[wzp]

Did you keep track of the specific modifications you made to the original code, and were the changes made only to that one file?

[xberg]

Yes: I kept a copy of the original files from Oct 2013 so I am able to see all changes we made. In addition to eMember_profile_utils we also added a few lines to:

emember_auth:

– cookie duration

– silent logout

In emember_misc_functions:

– added function get_wp_eMember_paypal_fields($args)

– translated countries to French

eMember_registration_utils

Fancy Login

– added wordpress social login to the form

[wzp]

So, it looks like you did a good job of documenting all of your changes, which is something that most people don’t do

How you might proceed is to first download the latest version, and then compare the appropriate files against your old changes. Because you documented everything, you can get a good idea of the complexity involved with upgrading, by using something like WinMerge.

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/automatic-update-request

[xberg]

Hi,

Yes, I did exactly that before contacting you and am using winmerge indeed. So thank you for the good tip

But what I was asking is if there was a better way to customise the profile page than overwriting your core files.

thanks!

[wzp]

Yes… I mentioned it in my first reply…

What’s the best way to do this without breaking the upgrade-ability of eMember?

The WP eMember Form Builder Addon (Extension) maybe helpful for you. Take a look to see if that will work for you:

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/wp-emember-form-builder-addon-extension-760?ap_id=TheAssurer

But in order for you to use that addon, you must somehow upgrade to the latest version of eMember.

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