Title: Problems with meta fields
Last modified: January 9, 2017

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# Problems with meta fields

 *  Resolved [grandmountain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grandmountain/)
 * (@grandmountain)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-meta-fields/)
 * Found an article on your main site that said to use advanced custom fields or
   user meta for custom fields. I have both of these plugins and have created fields
   and nothing shows up when I tell it to find new fields. I have also created some
   with user meta manager, and while these show up and work, does not work with 
   the forms I need to use.
 * other recommendation or tips?

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 *  Plugin Author [anmari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anmari/)
 * (@anmari)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-meta-fields/#post-8636904)
 * Hi grandmountain,
 * This plugin works off **actual data** in the user meta (not settings of other
   plugins) so one must always create some data after changing settings.
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/amr-users/installation/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/amr-users/installation/)
 * This is usually the problem when people say that ‘find fields’ does not find 
   their new fields. Without data, there is actually nothing to find in the user
   meta.
 * Note: Any third party plugin can be used, so long as it creates data in the wp
   user meta. If it doesn’t do that, or doesn’t do it well, stores it in strange
   ways, then an addon or custom code is needed to extract the data or it’s labels.
 * I haven’t done an exhaustive review of plugins that create user data, just noted
   how those that I have encountered work, (even gravity forms does odd things) 
   and how few have considered how people might want to use or report on the data!
   I assume you saw [this post](https://wpusersplugin.com/3195/possible-user-extra-field-or-user-meta-plugins/).
   Register plus used to be pretty good but is many years old and needed much fixup
   to work with current wordpress last I looked – probably a few years ago.
 *  Thread Starter [grandmountain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grandmountain/)
 * (@grandmountain)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-meta-fields/#post-8638299)
 * The problem is I did not follow the directions you have in BOLD about populating
   at least one record with data first so it can find the fields. Once I populated
   one record, it worked great!
 * Thanks

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-meta-fields/#post-8638299)
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