Another Question About Custom Fields

[wptavern]

I figure that since most users will eventually fill out their user profile after registering with the forum, why not make all those fields plus a custom one required before registration. However, I can not for the life of me figure out the combination of settings to make the fields required for registration only and just for new users. I don't want all users currently registered with my forum to answer the custom field question and I don't want registered users to have to answer the question to edit their profile. So out of all the required choices, how come I can't just select Yes, Registration only for Required.

[Jake Bunce]

I had the same issue on my forum. Currently there is no way to do that as far as I know. On my forum I ended up making the field required. Then I ran this query on my database to set an arbitrary value for existing users:

UPDATE userfield
SET fieldX = 'user existed before field required'
WHERE fieldX = ''