# Hidden User Fields

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hidden-user-fields/388397>\
**Category:** Theme component\
**Tags:** unmaintained, user-custom-fields\
**Created:** [November 13, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hidden-user-fields/388397 "2025-11-13T16:09:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![putty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/putty/32/370902_2.png) [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hidden-user-fields/388397/16 "2026-02-11T19:37:30Z")

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To anyone using this, as a PSA, I ended up going a different route from this theme component. **I discovered that terms were visible when searched for, which was a major vulnerability.** I’m adding clarification that Searchable is refering to the user directory, _not_ the site search.

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