UR-4815 - Support Member Search by Full Name

[saurab018]

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Changes proposed in this Pull Request:

Member search (User Registration → Members) already matched first_name, last_name, and nickname usermeta individually, but never checked them combined. So searching a full name (e.g. "John Smith") returned no results whenever the name was stored as separate first/last usermeta rather than combined into a single field like display_name.

Adds a concatenated first_name + ' ' + last_name match (both orders) alongside the existing per-field checks in urm_search_user_on_name(), so:

• Full name search ("John Smith") now matches when first/last are stored separately.
• Full name search still matches when the name lives in a single field (e.g. display_name) — unchanged.
• Searching an individual part ("John" or "Smith" alone) still matches — unchanged.
• Purely additive OR condition; no existing behavior removed.

Closes UR-4815.

How to test the changes in this Pull Request:

1. Go to User Registration → Members and edit/add a user whose display_name does not already equal their full name (e.g. set "Display name publicly as" to the username), but who has First Name / Last Name set on their profile.
2. Search for the user's full name, e.g. John Smith — before this fix, no results; after, the user is found.
3. Confirm searching just John or just Smith still finds the user.
4. Confirm searching by email, username, or an already-matching display_name still works as before.

Types of changes:

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

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Changelog entry

Fix: Member search now matches full name even when First Name and Last Name are stored as separate fields.

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Pull request overview

Adds support for member search queries that include a full name (e.g., “John Smith”) in the Members admin screen by matching against concatenated first_name/last_name usermeta combinations, while keeping existing per-field and core user table searches intact.

Changes:

• Extends urm_search_user_on_name() to add an EXISTS subquery that matches CONCAT(first_name, ' ', last_name) and the reverse order.
• Keeps existing search behavior for username, email, display name, nicename, and individual meta fields unchanged by adding the new logic as an additional OR condition.

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