Wordpress Ultimate Member: show profile info on account page - wordpress

Question

I made a custom registration form with a few extra fields using the ultimate member plugin. I want to display these extra fields on the account page. I already created an extra tab for it with hooks (see code below), but I can’t seem to find how to get the data from the extra fields of the register form. Does anyone has an idea?
Kind regards
Davy
/* Ultimate member */
/* tab Stormbee registration */
add_filter('um_account_page_default_tabs_hook', 'my_custom_tab_in_um', 100 );
function my_custom_tab_in_um( $tabs ) {
$tabs[800]['mytab']['icon'] = 'um-faicon-pencil';
$tabs[800]['mytab']['title'] = 'Stormbee registration';
$tabs[800]['mytab']['custom'] = true;
return $tabs;
}
/* make our new tab hookable */
add_action('um_account_tab__mytab', 'um_account_tab__mytab');
function um_account_tab__mytab( $info ) {
global $ultimatemember;
extract( $info );
$output = $ultimatemember->account->get_tab_output('mytab');
if ( $output ) { echo $output; }
}
/* Finally we add some content in the tab */
add_filter('um_account_content_hook_mytab', 'um_account_content_hook_mytab');
function um_account_content_hook_mytab( $output ){
ob_start();
?>
<div class="um-field">
<?php echo um_user('display_name'); ?> <br />
<?php
?>
</div>
<?php
$output .= ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output;
}
/* Ultimate member */

Answer 1

Ultimate Member stores the data from the fields in the User Meta table. In order to display the saved field values in the front end, you can use Wordpress's built-in get_user_meta function:
echo get_user_meta( $user_ID, $key, true );
You could use get_current_user_id() to retrieve the current user's ID. But since you are planning on displaying this on the Ultimate Member Account Page (which admins can access), I recommend you use UM()->user()->target_id instead. This will pull the ID of the user whose profile/account page you are viewing.
Next, all you need to do is figure out the key of the field. Usually, this is all lowercase with underscores. So something like first_name.
Here's what the final code would look like:
$user_ID = UM()->user()->target_id;
echo get_user_meta( $user_ID, 'description', true );