Comments on: WordPress Mass Account Import

By: Robert McKenzie

Robert McKenzie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:38:26 +0000

Hi Kenn,

Sorry, I can’t help at all with your problem. Perhaps someone else can that’s reading my site, failing that go to the original authors site and post your quesiton in their comments to see if anyone can lend a hand.

Sadly, my only real language is English

By: Kenn

Kenn — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:41:47 +0000

The script fails when I’m trying to import records which contains danish characters like æ,ø and å. Any chance to fix this would be great

- Kenn

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:30:05 +0000

Awesome. I’ve been looking for something like this for a bit. In my case, I’m trying to keep a wordpress user base in sync with a third-party application. On a weekly basis, I’ll update the wordpress users. Is there any way to tell the script to compare the table and the csv file and make the table match the csv file, deleting users that aren’t in the csv file but in the table, adding users that are in the file but not the table, and ignoring those that are in both? It sounds ridiculous, but we have a very transient user-base at this org, having over 1000 employees and experiencing over 100% turnover per year.

Thanks, again.

By: Robert McKenzie

Robert McKenzie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:41:24 +0000

Curtis,

You are sort of correct .. you must remember the very first field is the login name .. so you really should split your users “Name” into first and last names.. you might find this page helpful in doing that in Excel ..

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA011498511033.aspx

Remember, the line to import must look like:

login_name|Curtis Penner||mypassword|myemail|myrole

By: Curtis Penner

Curtis Penner — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:07:50 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply Robert.

Just so I’m clear…

I have an excel spreadsheet with one column labeled as Name. Let’s say I have “Curtis Penner”.

I could use the column labeled “Name” as “firstname” and leave the “lastname” field blank?

So it would look like…

Curtis Penner||mypassword|myemail|myrole

I just want to clarify because your example has “fred|Fred Rivers|…and I wasn’t sure why “fred” would be there.

By: Robert McKenzie

Robert McKenzie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:58:04 +0000

Hello Curtis,

You really can’t, these are stored in the database as separate items.. you could put both names into one field and just put an extra “|” in to represent the last name .. ie:

fred|Fred Rivers||mypassw0rd|fred@rivers.com|Editor

That would give you want you want, sort of but it users first name would be “Fred Rivers” whilst not having a last name.

By: Curtis Penner

Curtis Penner — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:52:06 +0000

Hi Rob,

Great plugin. It’s going to save loads of work. I have a question for you…

If I wanted to eliminate the two name fields (first and last) and just make one field – “Name”, how would I make the modifications?

Would I just delete all instances of “last name” and change “first name” to “name”?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:55:03 +0000

I’m curious, is there a way to import the usernames without sending them the users emails? Thanks.

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:59:44 +0000

As Onetrick said, how can we actually export our WP users in the right format for the import to WPMU?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:23:54 +0000

Kenny,

Sorry, sending of the email is something that wordpress does itself. It’s been a while since I’ve even looked at the script I can’t recall off hand if there is a way to prevent it.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:49:47 +0000

Thanks for the plug-in and it works so well for hundreds of ppl, but is there any way to stop acknowledging the user automatically? Since I would send email all new users with some other messages with an attachment like user guide
Thansk again!

By: onetrick

onetrick — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:49:34 +0000

Hello,
I am trying to import 11,000 users from one wordpress installation to another. Your script and guide looks very promising however… what good is importing when I can not figure out how to export user data?!

I’d like to have their username|email|password carried over at least. Everything would be better. I would appreciate it very much if you could help me a little bit with this one.

Thank you!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:30:38 +0000

Wordpress 2.8.4, still nothing…pasted in the data, but just switches back to Tools screen. Nothing imports…argh

By: Adam W. Warner

Adam W. Warner — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:35:42 +0000

Thanks for making this available! It was exactly what I needed to import more than 1500 users from our old website into our MU setup.

Thank you!

By: Daniel Noll

Daniel Noll — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:04:13 +0000

I discovered what the issue was…all sorts of odd behavior (auto-generated passwords, some records not loading) due to the Register Plus plugin.