Title: Sorting through user information
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Sorting through user information

 *  [chuckanutadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckanutadmin/)
 * (@chuckanutadmin)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-through-user-information/)
 * I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to sort and or search through a displayed
   user list. I have the user search up and running however, it creates a new table
   and displays the information on there. I wanted to try and clean up the look 
   of it and have it change the displayed user list based on the search. The other
   part I was wondering about was if there was a sort option for the display user
   list portion.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-end-only-users/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-end-only-users/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-through-user-information/#post-7381301)
 * Hi Chuck,
 * You could make use of the field_name and field_value attributes of the [user-
   list] shortcode to only show specific users in a list. For example, if you had
   a field called Animal, you could do something like: [user-list field_name=”Animal”
   field_value=”Dog”]. This would only show users who’ve selected Dog for this theoretical
   Animal field.
 * For the [user-search] shortcode, you could make use of the search_fields attribute
   to select which fields a visitor can search. There’s no option to have it display
   the full list of users and then dynamically weed out ones that don’t match a 
   search. That being said, you should be able to use both shortcodes on the same
   page to get close to having that behaviour.
 *  Thread Starter [chuckanutadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckanutadmin/)
 * (@chuckanutadmin)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-through-user-information/#post-7381353)
 * I was speaking more from the users standpoint on sorting. Is there a way that
   I could set it up so that they can click on a heading and it will sort?
 *  Plugin Contributor [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-through-user-information/#post-7381359)
 * Hi Chuck,
 * Unfortunately, there isn’t an option to do this within the list or search functionality.

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 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-through-user-information/#post-7381359)
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