Creating a profile field that only admin can edit
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For our site, we want to designate certain users as being special. That the user is special should appear in their profile, but only the site admin can designate a user as being special.
In an attempt to implement this behavior, I:
- added a field to the profile
- made the field available to all user types
- hid the field if the email field is not empty, i.e., it is hidden for all users
I then looked up the field_id in the table wp_bp_xprofile_fields for the newly created field, then added a row to the table wp_bp_xprofile_data using this field_id for each special user.
And this worked just fine, until…
One of the special users updated their profile. When this happened, my manually entered row in wp_bp_xprofile_data disappeared. I then conformed that updating the profile causes the entry to disappear – it does.
Question: Since my approach is not working, what is the proper way to achieve the desired goal?
Thank you.
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