Hide WordPress Email Field

I’d like to see if I can hide the buddypress email field from everyone in BuddyPress with s2member.

The reason is, I need to create a whole bunch of ‘dummy’ emails to allow me to import a couple hundred members. Part of the functionality I absolutely have to have is the ability for all of our members to login with the user/login we give them, whether they have given us an email address or not. Plus, some husband/wife members share an email address.

So what I’d like to do is HIDE the WordPress email field and create a CUSTOM email field. That way I can import in everyone with the dummy emails I create for all the users with no emails (WordPress requires emails to import) but still show the email in their profile in Buddypress.

All said, how can I hide the primary wordpress email field?

Thanks in advance for your help. This is probably my only roadblock to rolling out my new website right now.

Hi Wayne,

I’m not sure where you want to hide the email address field from, but this should be a simply CSS fix where you add a display:none; rule for the class or ID associated with that field.

If you’re referring to signup pages, then it will be a bit more tricky, as WordPress requires the email address. You’d need to use a bit of JavaScript and CSS to hide the email address field but also pre-fill it with an email address.

Thanks. I’ll see if I can figure out how to do that then. It’s good to know it’s possible. By the way, I want to hide it from people viewing member profiles in BuddyPress.

Yes, that should be a simply CSS change. You’ll just need to view the source of the page when viewing a member profile and find the class/id of that specific DIV. Then you can hide it via CSS.