How to Add and Remove WordPress Profile Fields

Ever want to add profile fields in your wordpress profile page, or how about removing a profile field from your wordpress profile. Here you’ll see how to:

1. Add a profile field to your author page aka profile page
2. Remove a profile field from your wordpress profile page
3. Call the custom profile information  somewhere within your blog post

[php]<?php
function my_new_contactmethods( $contactmethods ) {
// Remove Yahoo IM
unset($contactmethods[‘yim’]);
// Add Twitter
$contactmethods[‘twitter’] = ‘Twitter’;
//add Facebook
$contactmethods[‘facebook’] = ‘Facebook URL’;
return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter(‘user_contactmethods’,’my_new_contactmethods’,10,1);
?></code>

And then to call is within you post or pages just edit your template files and add:

<code><?php echo the_author_meta(‘facebook’);?>[/php]