Title: Not finding International users
Last modified: March 2, 2018

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# Not finding International users

 *  [freakency](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakency/)
 * (@freakency)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-finding-international-users/)
 * The plugin works in the uk but we have added some international “stores”
 * when i search for “Kenya” for example it doesn’t find the store (coach) even 
   though it exists and is listed as Kenya.
 * The same for New Zealand.
 * Is there an “allow international search” we need to turn on?
 * Marcus
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fnot-finding-international-users%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Tijmen Smit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tijmensmit/)
 * (@tijmensmit)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-finding-international-users/#post-10032319)
 * Searching by country is a bad idea since the search always starts from the center
   of the provided location, and only includes locations that fall within the set
   search radius.
 * So unless you set a huge search radius, it will unlikely find locations.
 * To solve this you could assign the locations that categories named after the 
   countries, and then ask the user to provide the city name. It will still need
   to find within the used search radius, but the category ( country ) list will
   make it clear to the user where the stores are located.

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