Title: update_user_meta
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# update_user_meta

 *  [kanupriya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kanupriya/)
 * (@kanupriya)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update_user_meta/)
 * I read one post where you replied as:
    To add additional field with update meta
   key
 * In controller/user.php file
 * Open the json-api-user/controllers/User.php
 * Find this:
 * if($user_id) $msg = ‘Success’;
 * Replace with this:
 * if($user_id) {
 * $msg = ‘Success’;
 * $gender = $_REQUEST[‘gender’];
    update_user_meta($user_id, ‘gender’, $gender);
 * }
 * You can add as many meta values as you want by copying the update_user_meta($
   user_id, ‘gender’, $gender);
 * line.
 * Please let me know where have to make this to add addional custom fields
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api-user/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api-user/)

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update_user_meta/)
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