A discussion was started by haldron to propose a feature to search for users in the admin panel by email, in addition to usernames. However, michaeld pointed out that email addresses already work in the admin user search, and the only issue was the hint text in the input field, which only mentioned “username”. codinghorror and [/t/-/16569/5]) agreed to update the copy to reflect this, changing the hint text to “username or email” to avoid confusion.
OK so a pretty simple idea that I just wanted to gauge potential interest on.
For one of the forums I work with, one of our community managers handles a team of volunteers that needed to be added as volunteers. I noticed that it’s not possible to search for users in the admin panel by email.
Thus, the proposal is for a fairly simple feature to accept either usernames or email addresses in the admin panel search. But obviously I don’t just want to put this together and submit a pull request, I’d much rather make sure this would actually be a useful tool for others first.