Admin User Search has all fields except Website, please add to the search

[beerForo]

Users > Search for users
At the bottom all the user fields are there except Website.
Please make it searchable! I can provide two use cases to support this.
1. Looking for those with websites and low post count to find spammers, enter https:// into the user field and search.
2. Looking for a certain member or company by website.
Thanks!

 

[beerForo]

Location/About is also missing. Please add these core fields, only custom are showing.

 

[Mumak]

I second this. Such feature is desperately needed.
My forum is getting swamped by profile spammers and filtering them out is a tedious work. MyBB offered a simple way to define a custom user search filter, but this doesn't seem to be possible here (especially for the website filed).

 

[beerForo]

Exactly. Spammers use website and about me the most. Simple acp searches can bring up their profiles except for the fact, these fields do not exist in acp.

 

[beerForo]

@Mumak in the meantime you can restrict profile editing, or just those fields:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/cxf-remove-location-website-and-about-you-field.6059/

Side note to XF: Shouldn't those unfurl?

 

[Lawrence]

Users > Search for users
At the bottom all the user fields are there except Website.
Please make it searchable! I can provide two use cases to support this.
1. Looking for those with websites and low post count to find spammers, enter https:// into the user field and search.
2. Looking for a certain member or company by website.
Thanks!

I'm currently working on an add-on that has this and the about (you) added to the user search, it may not be a core feature, but it's something:

 

[Lawrence]

@beerForo, @Mumak

I just released the add-on, it can be found here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/eae-add-ons-admin-tools.7369/

 

[Mumak]

@beerForo, @Mumak

I just released the add-on, it can be found here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/eae-add-ons-admin-tools.7369/

Thanks! However when I visit that page is says: "No permission to buy (CA$7.95)". Any idea why?

 

[beerForo]

Usually means not logged in.

 

[Lawrence]

Thanks! However when I visit that page is says: "No permission to buy (CA$7.95)". Any idea why?

Hi, that link will take you to my site to download it. There you need to register.

 

[StarArmy]

Definitely should be in the core. Seems like an oversight that it's not there.

 

[Andy.N]

Another vote to have this missing feature available in core soon.

 

[mazzly]

This is definitely a needed feature for the core...

We have noticed that some forums using our AMPXF addon that also have user profiles with "broken" website values like http:// or https:// which are problematic for AMP validity, so each post/thread a user like that has written on, won't show up in google results as AMP..

Those types of users could easily be fixed by running a batch update to search for exact match http:// or https://

The other case of course is to find spam accounts for those that use blackhat SEO and build profile links..

 

[StarArmy]

Yeah, that's what I would use it for - find spammers by searching for users with http in their website and no posts.

 

[mazzly]

Guys here you go:

Batch Update User Website

This addon was initially created for some AMPXF users that have migrated forums and have users with invalid website links: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/ampxf-amp-for-xenforo-2.8225/ What this addon does: Adds a website field in ACP >...

xenforo.com

@Brogan @Kier @Mike feel free to take whatever is in my code in that addon and throw it into the next version of XF, it is basically a copy of the username search criteria..

 

[StarArmy]

Guys here you go:

Batch Update User Website

This addon was initially created for some AMPXF users that have migrated forums and have users with invalid website links: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/ampxf-amp-for-xenforo-2.8225/ What this addon does: Adds a website field in ACP >...

xenforo.com

@Brogan @Kier @Mike feel free to take whatever is in my code in that addon and throw it into the next version of XF, it is basically a copy of the username search criteria..

Just installed and deleted a bunch of spammer accounts. Thanks a ton for this!