Users – custom fields
In Chapter 3, Advanced Content Management, we discovered custom fields, focusing on their usage as enrichment for articles. But Joomla also allows you to add custom fields to users, allowing you to enrich data about your users.
For example, you can use custom fields tied to users to collect data such as a short biography, birth date, province, city, phone number, email, and much more.
Custom Fields are organized in Custom Field Groups, which are used to display fields in an ordered way.
Custom Fields will be displayed in the user creation and editing form in the backend, while they are shown on the profile page and registration page on the website frontend.
To create and manage custom fields related to users, from Users Dashboard click on Fields in the module called User Fields. The procedure to create a custom field is identical to the one already presented in Chapter 3, Advanced Content Management.
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