You have the JS part down, in order to have this script run, you can use the add_action
function and hook it to the admin_head
. This will run your custom JS script in the header of the wp-admin
area. Below is the code that you can add to your child theme’s function.php
file.
I’ve added a rule to only implement this JS function to the related profile pages such as profile.php
, user-edit.php
, and user-new.php
so you won’t see it there. Also, I prefer to use hide()
instead of remove()
because if you were to remove a required field (ex: Nickname) instead of hiding it, you will have trouble saving your profile. See this link for the differences.
function wpse_238281_hide_profile_fields() { // Hide unused fields from user profile
global $pagenow;
$page = array(
'profile.php',
'user-edit.php',
'user-new.php'
);
if ( in_array( $pagenow, $page, true ) ) {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('input#url').closest('tr').hide();
$('input#description').closest('tr').hide();
} );
</script>
<?php
}
}