[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #6366: In `BP_User_Query`, allow xprofile fields to be toggled when searching

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#6366: In `BP_User_Query`, allow xprofile fields to be toggled when searching
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 Reporter:  boonebgorges  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  2.3
Component:  API           |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 When passing 'search_terms' to `BP_User_Query`, the following fields are
 matched: wp_users.user_login, wp_users.user_nicename, and all
 xprofile_data fields. This is mainly for legacy reasons: when
 `BP_User_Query` was first built, I tried to match the behavior of
 `BP_Core_User`, which was to match all xprofile fields.

 But this behavior is pretty odd in many cases. Often - perhaps usually? -
 searching for a user ought to mean searching by that user's name.

 We might consider changing the default behavior of 'search_terms' in the
 medium term. In the short term, I'd like to introduce something to
 `BP_User_Query` that allows the caller to dictate which field(s) to match
 - either a param like 'search_fields', or at the very least, a filter.

 See #5155, #4821, #6211 for some related issues.

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