Title: get_users($args) returns duplicate users
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# get_users($args) returns duplicate users

 *  [mortydot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortydot/)
 * (@mortydot)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_usersargs-returns-duplicate-users/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m using the following syntag;
 *  //search args
    $args = array( ‘blog_id’ => $GLOBALS[‘blog_id’], ‘orderby’ =>‘
   login’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘search’ => ‘a-name’, ‘count_total’ => false, ‘fields’
   => ‘all’, );
 *  //get the users and diplay them
    $blog_users = get_users($args);
 * Now I get 20+ duplicate user results (one user fits) with unike user ID’s in 
   the objects.
 * Database has no dublicate enteries.
    Anny sugestions?
 * Kinds regards,
    Sven

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 *  Thread Starter [mortydot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortydot/)
 * (@mortydot)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_usersargs-returns-duplicate-users/#post-3597926)
 * Hi,
 * I have still the same problem…
 * After some searching, I discovered that this code/search request:
 *     ```
       //search args
       $args = array(
       		'blog_id'      => $GLOBALS['blog_id'],
       		'orderby'      => 'user_nicename',
       		'order'        => 'ASC',
       		'search'       => $search,
       		'count_total'  => true,
       		'fields'       => 'all',
       		'number'       => '',
       		'meta_key'     => '',
       		'meta_value'   => '',
       		'meta_compare' => '',
       		'meta_query'   => array(),
       );
       //get the users and diplay them
       $blog_users = get_users($args);
       ```
   
 * Results in this query by the WordPress-core:
 * SELECT wp_users . *
    FROM `wp_users` INNER JOIN `wp_usermeta` ON `wp_users`.`
   ID` = `wp_usermeta`.`user_id` WHERE ‘1’ = ‘1’ AND ( ( `wp_usermeta`.`meta_key`
   = ‘wp_s2member_subscr_id’ AND `wp_usermeta`.`meta_value` LIKE ‘%asdf%’ ) OR (`
   wp_usermeta`.`meta_key` = ‘wp_s2member_custom’ AND `wp_usermeta`.`meta_value`
   LIKE ‘%asdf%’ ) OR ( `wp_usermeta`.`meta_key` = ‘wp_s2member_custom_fields’ AND`
   wp_usermeta`.`meta_value` LIKE ‘%asdf%’ ) OR ( `wp_usermeta`.`meta_key` = ‘wp_s2member_notes’
   AND `wp_usermeta`.`meta_value` LIKE ‘%asdf%’ ) OR ( `wp_usermeta`.`meta_key` 
   LIKE ‘%_name’ AND `wp_usermeta`.`meta_value` LIKE ‘%asdf%’ ) OR `user_login` 
   LIKE ‘%asdf%’ OR `user_nicename` LIKE ‘%asdf%’ OR `user_email` LIKE ‘%asdf%’ 
   OR `user_url` LIKE ‘%asdf%’ OR `display_name` LIKE ‘%asdf%’ ) AND `wp_users`.`
   ID` IN (
 * SELECT DISTINCT (
    `user_id` ) FROM `wp_usermeta` WHERE `meta_key` = ‘wp_capabilities’)
   ORDER BY `user_nicename` ASC LIMIT 0 , 30
 * Looking at all those OR fields to search for, I understand that there are so 
   many results. So what am I doing wrong? My goal is to search for all users with
   that name in them.
 * Tanks in advantage,
    Kinds regards, Sven

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_usersargs-returns-duplicate-users/#post-3597926)
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