Reply To: Field Visibility
I stated that the visibility for WordPress Fields are “currently” not user selectable. Why this decision was made was unknown to me, until recently, and appears to be along the same lines of why the “Requirements” metabox doesn’t appear for the WordPress Fields, as well.
Given this conversation, I looked for a possible reason that might uncover a decision to not include such capabilities and found that ticket #8487 (Add visibility and required controls to the WordPress profile fields) provides the history behind why the decision was made not to include the capabilities (visibility and requirements) and why these capabilities have yet to be incorporated (no one has provided a patch).
