Currently, its not possible that way.

Maria, this requires custom code modification.

Easiest way is to:

1. make users with "Premium" user role featured users.
2. within the source code of user search/user search results pages add the code which would have displayed featured members in any case as a separate block.

Dear Aliia,

Many thanks for your answer! I am going to try this way and see if it works ;)

Thanks!

Hi all...Does search users works only for the first name? I want to search users for middle name and last name, maybe a modification for SELECT ... WHERE name LIKE %var% could be possible. What do you all think?

Search by real name currently searches only by exact match. So to find Bill Smith, you need to enter either "Bill Smith" or "Bill".

I have passed this over to development team. New search rules might be implemented in one of the upcoming builds.


Regarding your solution, I recommend posting in Custom Code Modifications section of our forum.

Thanks Aliia, I'll be wating for the next update, modify search criteria it will be usefull.

November 2015, 18 months and a few new versions later this still hasn't been changed.

Come on guys, how many people know that John Smith is really John Sebastian Raymond Smith?

This is a serious problem and it needs to be fixed. Does anyone have a code snippet to change it? Every word in every search field should be searchable, not exact phrases. As it is Oxwall will only find the exact field contents or the "first word" in a field.:

Searching for Flinders Street in the address should produce every profile with an address in Flinders Street.

User search forum search nothing works as it should and like everything else will never b fixed 

Ocwall likes it that way and keeps it that way 

No docs on how anything works

No help in finding where to look to even fix something 

Nothing 

Every update overwrites every thing so no one want do anything 

They spent so much ti.e on a new admin panel that half of that time could of fixed all the problems in the script

@Tammy , we accept any new suggestions or votes for them at our uservoice.

Link: http://oxwall.uservoice.com/...eas&query=search

That is the place where product development team gets new ideas for updates.