# User Meta Inspector on Profile Screens

> Shows administrators a read-only table of every stored user meta value at the bottom of user profile screens, with session tokens and other secrets masked.

- Type: PHP
- Runs: Admin only
- Category: [Developer](https://wpide.com/library/category/developer/)
- Tags: users, debugging, user-meta
- Author: WPIDE Team
- Installs: 0
- Updated: 2026-10-28
- Page: https://wpide.com/library/debug-user-meta-inspector/

## Code

```php
// Meta keys whose values are never shown.
$wpide_masked_meta = array( 'session_tokens', '_application_passwords', 'wp_user-settings', 'default_password_nag' );

$wpide_user_meta_table = function ( $user ) use ( $wpide_masked_meta ) {
    if ( ! current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
        return;
    }

    $meta = get_user_meta( $user->ID );
    ksort( $meta );

    echo '<h2>User meta</h2><table class="widefat striped" style="table-layout:fixed;max-width:1000px"><thead><tr><th style="width:30%">Key</th><th>Value</th></tr></thead><tbody>';
    foreach ( $meta as $key => $values ) {
        $masked = in_array( $key, $wpide_masked_meta, true ) || false !== stripos( $key, 'token' ) || false !== stripos( $key, 'secret' ) || false !== stripos( $key, 'pass' );
        foreach ( $values as $value ) {
            $display = $masked ? '(hidden)' : ( is_serialized( $value ) ? print_r( maybe_unserialize( $value ), true ) : $value );
            printf( '<tr><td><code>%s</code></td><td><code style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:break-all">%s</code></td></tr>', esc_html( $key ), esc_html( mb_strimwidth( (string) $display, 0, 400, '...' ) ) );
        }
    }
    echo '</tbody></table>';
};

add_action( 'show_user_profile', $wpide_user_meta_table, 99 );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', $wpide_user_meta_table, 99 );
```

## Notes

Add other sensitive keys to $wpide_masked_meta to keep them hidden.

## How to use it

Install the free WPIDE plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpide/), find "User Meta Inspector on Profile Screens" in its snippet library and add it in one click; or create a new PHP snippet in WPIDE (or any code snippets plugin) and paste the code above. More snippets: https://wpide.com/library/