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BP Profile Search adds a configurable search form to your BuddyPress site, so visitors can find site members searching their extended profiles.

You can insert the search form in a post or page, or in a sidebar or widget area, or anywhere in your theme, e.g. in your Members Directory template file.

In all three cases when visitors click the 'Search' button, they are redirected to your Members Directory page showing their search results. The 'All Members' tab shows all the results, while the 'My Friends' tabs shows the results found among your visitor's friends.