I have a custom field and I have set it as searchable. However on the user page /u the only search field says “filter by username”. When I search for the contents of the custom field, no results show.
I can see the values in the list (I turned the column on in the customizer) So I can see that those values clearly exist.
What am I doing wrong?
Strangely, the values of the custom field are links, e.g. u?cards=no&name=Female&order=likes_received and when clicked it runs a search for the value in the name field. And it returns nothing.
These are the prefs for the field:
Also (I don’t know if this is a clue) when I sort by that custom field column, whether it is forward or backward, there are always users with empty fields at the top of the list (different users) . Only a small number of users have content in this field, but I would have expected all the empties to be at the top or the bottom of the list, not both.