How to activate user search in wordpress

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I’m trying to activate the user search in my wordpress site. Which means that I want also the users on the search result. I have tried some plugins, but none of these gives the solution I want. Is there some code snippet that I can put on functions.php that helps to solve my problem? Do I have to use WP_User_Query? Thanks!

So far I have used these plugins:

  • Relevanssi
  • Search everything
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  1. This is not perfect but might help.
    You can create a search template and create your user query after/before the main loop like this:

    $search = get_query_var( 's' );
$user_query = new WP_User_Query( array(
  'search' => "*{$search}*",
  'search_columns' => array(
        'user_login',
        'user_nicename',
        'user_email',
        'user_url',
  ),
  'meta_query' => array(
        'relation' => 'OR',
        array(
              'key' => 'first_name',
              'value' => $search,
              'compare' => 'LIKE'
        ),
        array(
              'key' => 'last_name',
              'value' => $search,
              'compare' => 'LIKE'
        )
  )
      ) );