[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27304: Improve user searching

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#27304: Improve user searching
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 Reporter:  johnbillion     |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Users           |    Version:
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:  needs-patch
  Focuses:  administration  |
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 Performing a search on the Users admin screen is terrible and infuriating.
 Only the `user_login` (username) and `user_nicename` (sanitised username)
 fields are searched.

 None of these fields are ever searched:

  * First name
  * Last name
  * Nickname
  * Display name

 Email addresses are only searched if your search query contains an `@`
 symbol.

 On the Users screen in Network Admin, it gets worse. The user needs to be
 aware of the need to use a `*` wildcard character at the beginning and/or
 end of the search term, otherwise the search requires an exact match.

 We should default to searching everything, all the time, with filters in
 place to revert the behaviour for large networks which need to control
 performance.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27304>
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