I just had a project where i needed to create a search by user meta form and i ended up creating a shortcode for it, i just altered it a bit to show you how to make it work with your fields, so just paste this code inside your theme’s functions.php file or a plugin file:
add_shortcode('user_search','My_User_search');
function My_User_search($atts = null){
$out = user_search_form();
if (isset($_GET['user_search']) && $_GET['user_search'] == "search_users" && isset($_GET['search_by'])){
global $wpdb;
$metakey = $_GET['search_by'];
$args = array('meta_key' => $metakey);
if (isset($_GET['s_value'])){
$metavalue = $_GET['s_value'];
$args['meta_value'] = $metavalue;
}
$search_users = get_users($args);
$out .= '<div class="user_search_results">';
if (count($search_users) >0){
// here we loop over the users found and return whatever you want eg:
$out .= '<ul>';
foreach ($search_users as $user) {
$out .= '<li>' . $user->user_email . '</li>';
}
$out .= '</ul>';
}else{
$out .= 'No users found, try searching for something else.';
}
$out .= '</div>';
}
return $out;
}
//function to display user search form
function user_search_form(){
$metavalue = $metakey = '';
if (isset($_GET['search_by'])){
$metakey = $_GET['search_by'];
}
if (isset($_GET['s_value'])){
$metavalue = $_GET['s_value'];
}
$re="<div class="user_search"><form action="" name="user_s" method="get">
<label for="search_by">Search by:</label>
<select id="search_by" name="search_by">";
if ($metakey != ''){
$re.= '"';
$re.= ($metakey == "nickname") ? '<option value="nickname" selected="selected">Name</option>': '<option value="nickname">Name</option>';
$re.= ($metakey == "areacode") ? '<option value="areacode" selected="selected">area code</option>': '<option value="areacode">area code</option>';
$re.= ($metakey == "company") ? '<option value="company" selected="selected">company</option>': '<option value="company">area code</option>';
$re.= ($metakey == "affiliate") ? '<option value="affiliate" selected="selected">affiliate</option>': '<option value="affiliate">area code</option>';
}else{
$re .= '
<option value="nickname">Name</option>
<option value="areacode">area code</option>
<option value="company">company</option>
<option value="affiliate">affiliate</option>';
}
$re .= '
</select>
<label for="s_value">Value:</label>
<input id="s_value" name="s_value" type="text" value="'.$metavalue.'"/>
<input name="user_search" id="user_search" type="hidden" value="search_users"/>
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="Search" />
</form></div>';
return $re;
}
Usage:
simply create a page or a post and enter [user_search]