Title: Default Meta Fields Changed
Last modified: August 24, 2019

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# Default Meta Fields Changed

 *  Resolved [tk202303](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tk202303/)
 * (@tk202303)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-meta-fields-changed/)
 * I recently updated to 3.2.9.3 and the prebuilt data fields (address, city, state,
   etc) all have different meta keys that now start with ‘billing’ (i.e. billing_address_1).
   I’m not sure what caused this and based on the documentation these are incorrect.
   Unfortunately I am also unable to edit the meta keys to the prior values. Would
   anyone be able to tell me if these are correct new meta keys and if not is there
   a simple solution without manually updating them in the db to resolve this? Thank
   you in advance for your help!

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 *  Plugin Author [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * (@cbutlerjr)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-meta-fields-changed/#post-11864899)
 * When the plugin updates, it looks to see if there are existing settings (and 
   fields), and if so, it does not overwrite those. So I’m wondering if you possibly
   did this as a new install on an existing site (removing the plugin and then installing
   it)? Otherwise, this would be out of the ordinary.
 * Prior to 3.2, the default meta keys were:
 * first_name (text)
    last_name (text) addr1 (text) addr2 (text) city (text) thestate(
   text) zip (text) country (text) phone1 (text) user_email (email) confirm_email(
   email) user_url (text) description (textarea) password (password) confirm_password(
   password) tos (checkbox)
 * In order to match up data, you can add a field in the Fields tab with the meta
   key that you need and delete the ones you do not. Do this for each field you 
   need to match up with an old meta key. The user data will still be there under
   the meta key it was originally saved under.
 *  Thread Starter [tk202303](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tk202303/)
 * (@tk202303)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-meta-fields-changed/#post-11865880)
 * Thank you for the information!
 *  Thread Starter [tk202303](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tk202303/)
 * (@tk202303)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-meta-fields-changed/#post-11868849)
 * I was able to update the meta keys and all of that is working as expected. One
   problem that I am still running into it when I go to view users on the user list
   it shows the fields I manually created to hold the meta keys as well as the meta
   keys with ‘billing’ is there any way to delete these? Thank you!
 *  Thread Starter [tk202303](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tk202303/)
 * (@tk202303)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-meta-fields-changed/#post-11873192)
 * I ended up just updating the database to reflect the new billing meta keys. Thank
   you for your assistance!

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 * Last reply from: [tk202303](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tk202303/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-meta-fields-changed/#post-11873192)
 * Status: resolved