Title: Conditional Required fields
Last modified: April 8, 2018

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# Conditional Required fields

 *  Resolved [pzh20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pzh20/)
 * (@pzh20)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-required-fields-2/)
 * I have a situation where someone can add details of either themselves or someone
   else to the site. If their selection is “Myself” then I have a series of fields
   with labels Your Email, Your Name etc. If they select “Someone Else”, then the
   fields are Nominee’s Name, Nominee’s Email etc. However, which ever option they
   select, I have to set the particular fields as required.
 * Is there a way round this?
 * Regards
    Pete

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 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-required-fields-2/#post-10159143)
 * sure, just go ahead and make all the fields required. If they happen to be hidden
   on form submission, these fields will not trigger any validation errors. Only
   the visible fields will trigger errors.
 *  Thread Starter [pzh20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pzh20/)
 * (@pzh20)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-required-fields-2/#post-10159162)
 * That’s what I hoped but the tutorial suggests otherwise.
    Thanks Jules, I’ll 
   give it a try .
 * Regards
    Pete
 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-required-fields-2/#post-10159172)
 * which tutorial and which part of it are you referring to? If so, I will need 
   to update the tutorial 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-required-fields-2/#post-10159172)
 * Status: resolved