[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Hello

Does anyone know how I might go about writing a plugin to allow certain Profile Fields to only be edited by an Admin? I’d like to eventually have a “rank” or similar profile field in my community which I would want to set manually for each user, and not allow them to change it themselves.

Regards,

DJPaul

[Simon Arame]

I’ve encounter the same requirements for a profile field to be editable only by admin that is non-editable by suscribers.
Someone could eventually commit a small plugin that allows this sort of administrative tagging.

Outside of buddypress perspective, I end up using wp_usermeta database table with a call to add_user_meta($user_id, $meta_key, $meta_value [, $unique] ) and when i need the info stored i use get_currentuserinfo()
references :
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_user_meta
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

[clinthorner]

I have the same requirements. I guess I am not advanced enough to use the solution posted above. I tried messing with the solution above but am really getting nowhere. Can you elaborate on this? Does anybody else have a solution?