Enhanced User Search

Enhanced User Search: Effortlessly Find Your Users

Struggling to locate a specific user in the WordPress administration area? The standard user search can make it difficult to find people when you only know their name, phone number, company or another profile detail.

Enhanced User Search expands the existing WordPress Users search so you can find users using names, account details and safe custom user fields—all from the familiar Users screen.

Why use Enhanced User Search?

• Find users more easily: Locate users even when you do not remember their exact username or email address.
• Save administration time: Search several types of user information from one search box.
• Improve accuracy: Use complete names and multiple terms to narrow the results.
• Manage larger user lists: Find specific accounts more efficiently on membership, e-commerce and Multisite installations.
• No setup required: Activate the plugin and continue using the existing WordPress user search.

Key features

• Search first names, last names, display names, usernames and email addresses.
• Search user IDs and safe custom user fields.
• Search complete names even when first and last names are stored separately.
• Use automatic multi-word AND matching.
• Use explicit AND and OR search operators.
• Automatically exclude common security-sensitive and internal fields.
• Avoid duplicate results and pagination problems on Multisite installations.
• Work directly inside the existing WordPress Users screen.
• Use the plugin immediately without a settings page.

Who should use Enhanced User Search?

This plugin is useful for anyone who manages WordPress users, especially:

• Websites with large user lists: Find a specific account among many users.
• Membership websites: Search membership numbers and custom profile information.
• WooCommerce stores: Find customers using safe billing details such as phone numbers or company names.
• WordPress Multisite networks: Search users while preserving WordPress site and network restrictions.
• Customer portals: Search customer references, account identifiers and other safe profile fields.
• Developers and administrators: Improve user management without replacing the standard WordPress interface.

Search using more user information

Administrators can search by:

• First name
• Last name
• Display name
• Username
• Email address
• User ID
• Safe custom user fields

Search complete names

Multiple words use AND matching automatically.

For example, consider a user with:

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