jon424

thanks, will do.

I am working with the Plant Shop theme

Thanks for the feedback. I fixed this issue by wrapping everything inside an add_action hook:

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', function(){
      //1. get User Status
      $user_id   = get_current_user_id();
      $user_output =  get_user_meta($user_id, 'needs_extra_item', true);
      //echo $user_output[0];

      //2. Register the script
      wp_register_script( 'some_handle', './js/jqueryLaPuerta.js' );

      //3. Localize the script with new data
      $some_array = array(
          'some_string' => __( $user_output, 'plugin-domain' ),
          'a_value' => '10'
      );
      wp_localize_script( 'some_handle', 'object_name', $some_array );

      //4. Enqueued script with localized data.
      wp_enqueue_script( 'some_handle' );
});