[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60642: Improvement request: user deletion/merging

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#60642: Improvement request: user deletion/merging
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 Reporter:  rcroman      |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Users        |    Version:  6.4.3
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 I'd like to request an improvement to the existing "delete user" function.
 Currently, this function nicely allows a user account to be deleted with
 the option of merging the information associated with the account to
 another user account. This comes in handy when a user creates an account
 with an incorrect email address, then creates a second account with the
 correct email address, but there are details associated with the first
 account (e.g., WooCommerce orders) that need to be transferred to the
 second account.

 The issue is that this function currently relies on a drop-down menu to
 select the destination account for the merge. My site has over 23,000
 users. This drop-down menu thus either takes a very long time to populate,
 and then a very long time to find and select the correct destination
 account, or else it crashes the browser on a less well-endowed machine.

 Please change this function such that it does not use a fully-populated
 drop-down menu to make this selection. Use a different mechanism to search
 for the destination account for the merge. Also, please allow for
 searching for the destination account either by username or email address.
 Currently it only allows searching by username.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60642>
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