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I am trying to manipulate the data returned by the members loop and am having trouble with the pagination when clicking on page 2, page 3 when a search value is provided.

When I click on page 2, the results seem to forget the results returned by the search query and display all members.

Why is it that this works (note I have hard coded the search_terms value to ‘paul’:

$args = array(
	'search_terms'	=> 'paul',
	'per_page'	=> 2
);

if ( bp_has_members( $args ) ) :

Yet this doesn’t work:

$search_terms = esc_html( $_REQUEST['search_text'] );

$args = array(
	'search_terms'	=> $search_terms,
	'per_page'	=> 2
);

if ( bp_has_members( $args ) ) :

Members Loop