Title: edit_user_{$field}
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( “edit_user_{$field}”, mixed $value, int $user_id )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters a user field value in the ‘edit’ context.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$field`, refers to the prefixed user field
being filtered, such as ‘user_login’, ‘user_email’, ‘first_name’, etc.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$value`mixed

Value of the prefixed user field.

`$user_id`int

User ID.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $value = apply_filters( "edit_user_{$field}", $value, $user_id );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/user.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/user.php#L1916)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/user.php#L1916-L1916)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [sanitize_user_field()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/sanitize_user_field/)`wp-includes/user.php` |

Sanitizes user field based on context.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_user_field/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [2.9.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.9.0/) | Introduced. |

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