By default WordPress in WP-admin allows users to search only by username or email id.
As of April 2026, Extended User Search In WP-Admin is a WordPress Extend user search in wpadmin plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 19% this week.
By default WordPress in WP-admin allows users to search only by username or email id.
But what if you want to search user by first name or last name or both. What if you want to search by entering only partial email address/id or username or by bio, you cannot do it as by default. WordPress do not come with this feature.
This plugin eliminate above limitation. Which could perform search based on full-name, first-name, last-name, email, username and bio.
“Extended User Search In WP-admin” Plugin that allows admin to search user much more deeply and overcomes the limit possessed by WordPress.
Note :- This plugin is inspired from “Improved user search in backend” and “User First Name / Full Name Search In WP-admin” plugins.
Does what it says on the can. Perfect, thanks!
Works great, helped us find duplicates quickly! We’re running WP 6.4.3.
yyyeeeaaahhhh…thank you! It was not possible that WordPress, used all over the world, remained without a function as basic and trivial as it is important! thanks for the great contribution!
Plugin works fine. It helped me to resolve some issue
We struggled with searching for members in a separate plug in (they’d end up just as a user only) and this allowed us to find them by first name or last name … a huge time saver! Nice and simple, no problems. Thank you!
| WordPress | 4.9.6+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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