# Search should also look at "About me" section in user profile

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-should-also-look-at-about-me-section-in-user-profile/24590
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [29 בינואר,‏ 2015,‏ 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-should-also-look-at-about-me-section-in-user-profile/24590 "2015-01-29T23:09:34Z")
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### Author: ![weallwegot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/weallwegot/32/124753_2.png) [@weallwegot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/weallwegot)
#### Post date: [19 ביולי,‏ 2020,‏ 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-should-also-look-at-about-me-section-in-user-profile/24590/8 "2020-07-19T01:12:42Z")

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> [@ssvenn](#):
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> Discourse, the ability to search custom fields to find users would be very welcome!

if someone wanted to do this optionally on their forum as an extension, i’m assuming it would require a plugin. Where would someone start if they wanted to look into developing this type of functionality?

**edit**  
Some other literature on the subject, i forgot i had seen this before but looks like someone had done some development on it, but ended up being decided against in core

> [@Adding user attributes to the directory item serializer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-user-attributes-to-the-directory-item-serializer/130927/19):
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> @david I’ve made a PR here [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8376](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8376) cc @angus

is it possible to have the functionality in the [linked PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8376) in a plugin?

> [@User Card Directory](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-directory/144479/10):
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> Thanks this is beautiful and something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I know this is a theme component so not sure it changes any functionality, but asking anyways. Does this happen to enable users to search each other by their attributes? For instance if a custom attribute for users is University Attended and a user wanted to find everyone who went to a particular school could they search for Stanford and have all the users pull up here? I saw this [link](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-the-user-card-data-source/139951) that seemed to maybe imply that b…

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