I am trying to display information from a custom table from my wordpress users pages

Because it is a custom table, you write a custom function: Put this function in your themes functions.php. Then at the position in any template where you want to display the balance: displayRemainingBalance( $currentUserId ) function displayRemainingBalance($userid) { global $wpdb; $record = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare(‘select balance from yourcustomtable WHERE userid=%d’, $userid)); echo $record->balance; } You can also … Read more

Is there a simpler version of WP Media?

You can use ACF to do this. Set up your custom field for the user profile. Use the acf_form() to produce a form containing the field on your front end for the user to interact with. Customise your acf_form() arguments to use a “simple” uploader (this will not expose WP Media Library to users then) … Read more