# Can admins create user fields that are only visible/editable in the admin panel?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** user-custom-fields\
**Created:** [October 28, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-admins-create-user-fields-that-are-only-visible-editable-in-the-admin-panel/386919 "2025-10-28T11:32:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anton\_Akhmerov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/anton_akhmerov/32/169548_2.png) [@Anton\_Akhmerov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anton_Akhmerov)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-admins-create-user-fields-that-are-only-visible-editable-in-the-admin-panel/386919/3 "2025-10-28T13:14:54Z")

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I run discourse for university courses, and the custom user field would be the student number. A theme component seems like an OK stopgap solution, but making a custom field completely invisible to anything but staff or system API would be cleaner.

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