# Adding and editing user custom fields

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-and-editing-user-custom-fields/26498
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** user-custom-fields
**Created:** [March 19, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-and-editing-user-custom-fields/26498 "2015-03-19T00:15:10Z")
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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-and-editing-user-custom-fields/26498/8 "2015-03-20T19:10:26Z")

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Note that there can be other custom fields added by plugins, and they might have a strict structure, which I think is why this hasn’t been done. For the “private notes on a user” plugin, it wouldn’t exactly do to expose your ‘private’ notes to the moderators when they went to a user’s page.

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