# Connecting custom user fields to plugins/theme components

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**Created:** [April 3, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connecting-custom-user-fields-to-plugins-theme-components/260401 "2023-04-03T16:03:03Z")\
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A hint, but not a proper answer, is that you want to add those custom fields to the serializer in a plugin.

I thought that user custom fields were in the serializer if they were on the user card or profile, but they don’t seem to be, so, if you don’t get a better answer, you’d need to look for a plugin that modifies the user serializer for an example.

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