DiscourseConnect and user time zone / location

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@troygrady

However, since our users never actually see a Discourse signup form, this may be irrelevant.

Right. They’re not going to see the login form.

@troygrady

To put this another way, is there a way to create custom fields that are only for internal use, i.e. that never appear on any kind of user-editable form in Discourse? I would imagine there are lots of potential uses for this in terms of integrating WP or other external platform data into Discourse displays.

Yes, but they won’t automatically appear on the user card, which is where you want the data displayed right? Nevertheless, if that’s what you want, you can just add any arbitrary field in the wpdc_sso_params filter, e.g.

$sso_params["custom.not_a_user_field"] = "field value";

This will be stored in Discourse in the user_custom_fields database table, but won’t be visible anywhere. You can query it using the Data Explorer Plugin.