I found this information here.
To add more contact information to a WordPress user such as the user’s LinkedIn username add the following code to your functions.php file:
add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'my_user_contactmethods');
function my_user_contactmethods($user_contactmethods){
$user_contactmethods['linkedin'] = 'Linked In username';
$user_contactmethods['phone'] = 'Phone';
return $user_contactmethods;
}
This gives me this in my user profile:
To remove fields from the user profile:
add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'my_user_contactmethods');
function my_user_contactmethods($user_contactmethods){
unset($user_contactmethods['yim']);
unset($user_contactmethods['aim']);
unset($user_contactmethods['jabber']);
$user_contactmethods['linkedin'] = 'Linked In username';
$user_contactmethods['phone'] = 'Phone';
return $user_contactmethods;
}
This gives me this in my user profile:

