### [How to Create More User Smart Tags](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-create-more-user-smart-tags/)

**Published:** March 24, 2021
**Author:** Editorial Team

**Excerpt:** This tutorial will show you how to create custom user Smart Tags to use in your WPForms that will pull information from the WordPress User Profile.

**Content:**

## Introduction

Would you like to create custom user Smart Tags to use in your WPForms that will pull information from the WordPress User Profile?

A [Smart Tag](https://wpforms.com/docs/how-to-use-smart-tags-in-wpforms/ "How to Use Smart Tags in WPForms") is a bit of code that you can use to insert relevant information to your form notification settings or as field default values. In this tutorial, we’re going to a form for all the default WordPress user prompts that make up a profile and display them on a page for users to confirm their information.

By default, there are already some user-related [Smart Tags](https://wpforms.com/docs/how-to-use-smart-tags-in-wpforms/ "How to Use Smart Tags in WPForms") available with WPForms such as **User ID**, **Display Name**, **User Meta** etc.

The **User Meta** Smart Tag can be used as a blank coverage for any custom fields that may have been added to the WordPress User Profiles such as social links or any custom fields added to the WordPress User Profile.

## Creating the new user Smart Tags

First, we’ll need to add this code snippet to our site. The first function using the `wpforms_smart_tags` filter will create the Smart Tags. The second function using the `wpforms_smart_tag_process` filter will define the Smart Tags.

If you need help in adding code snippets to your site, [please review this tutorial](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-add-custom-php-or-javascript-for-wpforms/ "How to Add Custom PHP or JavaScript for WPForms").

```

/**
 * Create User Smart Tags from the WordPress profile.
 *
 * @link   https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-create-more-user-smart-tags/
 */

function wpf_dev_register_user_profile_smart_tags ( $tags ) {
 
    // Key is the tag, item is the tag name.
    $tags[ 'wp_nickname' ]     = 'WP Profile Nickname';
    $tags[ 'wp_username' ]     = 'WP Profile Username';
    $tags[ 'wp_url' ]          = 'WP Profile URL';
    $tags[ 'wp_user_role' ]    = 'WP Profile User Role';
    $tags[ 'wp_user_bio' ]     = 'WP Profile Bio';
     
    return $tags;
}
 
add_filter( 'wpforms_smart_tags', 'wpf_dev_register_user_profile_smart_tags', 10, 1 );

/**
 * Process the User Smart Tags from the WordPress profile.
 *
 * @link   https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-create-more-user-smart-tags/
 */
 
function wpf_dev_process_user_profile_smart_tags( $content, $tag ) {
 
    $userID = get_current_user_id();
 
    // Nickname from WordPress profile
    if ( 'wp_nickname' === $tag ) {
 
        $wp_nickname = get_the_author_meta( 'nickname', $userID );
		
        // Replace the tag with the nickname pulled from the user's WordPress profile.
        $content = str_replace( '{wp_nickname}', $wp_nickname, $content );
 
    }
 
    // Username from WordPress profile
    if ( 'wp_username' === $tag ) {
 
        $wp_username = get_the_author_meta( 'user_login', $userID );
		
        // Replace the tag with the username pulled from the user's WordPress profile.
        $content = str_replace( '{wp_username}', $wp_username, $content );
 
    }

    // Website URL from WordPress profile
    if ( 'wp_url' === $tag ) {
 
        $wp_url = get_the_author_meta( 'user_url', $userID );
		
        // Replace the tag with the Website URL pulled from the user's WordPress profile.
        $content = str_replace( '{wp_url}', $wp_url, $content );
 
    }

    // Current role from WordPress profile
    switch ($tag) {
 
        case "wp_user_role":
        $user = wp_get_current_user();
        $roles = implode(', ', (array) $user->roles);
        $content = str_replace( '{' . $tag . '}', $roles, $content );
        break;
 
    }

    // Bio from WordPress profile
    if ( 'wp_user_bio' === $tag ) {
 
        $wp_user_bio = get_the_author_meta( 'description', $userID );
		
        // Replace the tag with the user bio pulled from the user's WordPress profile.
        $content = str_replace( '{wp_user_bio}', $wp_user_bio, $content );
 
    }
 
    return $content;
}
 
add_filter( 'wpforms_smart_tag_process', 'wpf_dev_process_user_profile_smart_tags', 10, 2 );
```

This snippet is adding **WP Profile Nickname**, **WP Profile Username**, **WP Profile URL**, **WP Profile User Role**, and **WP Profile Bio**. These Smart Tags we’ll use in our form to pull in the information we already have from the user’s WordPress profile so that they can confirm the information on file.

#### Creating the form

Now it’s time to create our form so that we can use our new Smart Tags. If you need help in creating a form, [please see this article](https://wpforms.com/docs/creating-first-form/ "Creating Your First Form").

For most of our fields on this form, we’re just adding the **Single Line Text** form field. Once we’ve added the field and updated the label, click on the **Advanced** tab. You’ll see the **Default Value** field, just select the **Show Smart Tags** and scroll until you find one of the new Smart Tags we just added. Once you’ve selected the correct one, that Smart Tag will display inside the **Default Value** for our field.

![by adding custom user Smart Tags to the default value of the fields, this information will automatically be pulled from the user WordPress profile](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wpforms-default-value-smart-tags.jpg)

We’ll continue to add our fields and Smart Tags in the same fashion. For the **Bio** field, we’re going to use the **Paragraph Text** form field to display the bio, but the steps to add the Smart Tag to the **Default Value** field are exactly the same as above.

Now when the users visit this form, they’ll see the information is already pulled in for them by default.

![users will see their information already populating the form fields when they view the form](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wpforms-profile-form-smart-tags.jpg)

You can find more information on creating other Smart Tags by viewing the article on [How to Create A Custom Smart Tag](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-create-a-custom-smart-tag/ "How to Create A Custom Smart Tag").

And that’s all you need in order to create more user Smart Tags with WPForms. Would you like to use those Smart Tags inside an **HTML / Code Block**? In our tutorial [How to Process Smart Tags in HTML Fields](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-process-smart-tags-in-html-fields/ "How to Process Smart Tags in HTML Fields"), we’ll show you how to use PHP to allow Smart Tags in this type of form field.

## Related

Filter References:

- [wpforms\_smart\_tags](https://wpforms.com/developers/wpforms_smart_tags/ "Using the wpforms_smart_tags filter")
- [wpforms\_smart\_tag\_process](https://wpforms.com/developers/wpforms_smart_tag_process/ "Using the wpforms_smart_tag_process filter")

**Categories:** Tutorials

**Tags:** PHP, Smart Tag

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