Import Users Plugin for WordPress

Thanks for this plugin. Is it possible to modify it to allow existing users to be added to a blog. This would allow me to add my students to class specific blogs on an wpmu site which would be very helpful.

How do you modify the email that is sent to the users when their account is created?

When I import the TXT file, the fields “firstname” and “lastname” remain blank. The users are recorded successfully with login, email, password and role, but the page shows the message: “No names entered in field”. Anyone have an idea to solve this?

Thanks for making such great plug-in, may I know if I can import the users without sending them emails? Tks!!

Love the plugin and the enhancements. I was using a previous version modified by D’Arcy Norman at ucalgaryblogs that gracefully handled existing usernames and email addresses on import. I tried to modify the new one with his added code but couldn’t get it to function. I was hoping someone who actually understands php could help. That is a feature my user need in a school where students are imported to multiple teacher blogs. Thanks

Great Plugin, thank you.

To disable user notification, comment out line 204. I believe this is a wordpress-native function.

In other words, type two slashes in front of the line, like so:

// wp_new_user_notification($user_id, $password);

Works with version 1.2

Hi, I found it:
Tools -> DDImportUsers
Thanks!!

Great plug-in! The one addition I’d love to see is the ability to import additional fields. I’d like to import the users description field (and also address and phone number, which I have via the Extended Profile plugin).

Well, I solved (with quite a bit of research) the errors we were getting in the Dashboard and site: Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter

I eddited your script, and removed all blanc (spaces) before the two tags: and i made sure they were all at the beginning of a line.

As i am new to php, this syntax issue is not totally clear to me, but one thing is clear: now the plugin runs without conflict with the other plugins or 2.8 apparently.

Thanks, it is saving me a lot of work.

I am running version 2.8 of WP, and i am getting the following errors:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/thewood3/public_html/wp-content/plugins/Users-Import/Dagon Import users modifed Rob.php:320) in /home/thewood3/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wp-shopping-cart.php on line 166

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/thewood3/public_html/wp-content/plugins/Users-Import/Dagon Import users modifed Rob.php:320) in /home/thewood3/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sidebar-login/sidebar-login.php on line 258

I love the Plugin but I’ve realized that it doesn’t apply the Dashboard Blog assigned in options. If I manually add a new user through the WPMU interface then the Dashboard Blog is assigned. Any ideas on how this can be fixed?

Found it here /wordpress-mu/wp-includes/pluggable.php line 1125

Thanks a lot for the pluggin.
Still don’t try this, but have one question.
Can it be confiured to don’t sent an e-mail.

I need the users to be added to the school wordpress, but I have to sent the information on my own.
Can this plugin only add the user, assword, and role?

Thanks

Ok..I tried this manually last night. The new users were added but an email was never sent out. I wanted it to be automatically generated? I left in the separators but put nothing in the space. I obviously left something out? This is what I used.

username|firstname|lastname||email|

Ideas? Did I do this wrong?

Great plug-in and almost perfect for my needs. I added modifications to 1) not email the admin the new user information, 2)provide an option to turn off the email notice to the new user 3)and provide an option to add some text before the username/password in the email. I posted the code here: http://rodeworks.com/technology/wordpress-batch-import-users/ . I hope you find this useful.

I get this error , what wrong/
System error! Could not add: ioman1|ioman@ioman.com

Can you put this as a normal *.zip file like all the other plugins. I had a problem with it being different and got confused then when i did it it did not end up working to install a plugin.

Hi,

Thanks for the plugin but I cannot get this to appear in the plugins page. I am using fresh, latest wordpress install. Please help.

Thank you,

Aaron

I am having the same issue as Scott(65). The plugin doesn’t show up in my admin screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

What about setting the default role to ’subscriber’ instead of administrator? I say this after having created 95 administrators accidentally!

Can this be integrated in with paypal subscribe? Would like to have this come up as a completion of payment to have subscribers generate thier user name and password. Don’T want it to be a general public sign up.

Paypal offers this service for free and will handle all password generation and integrate into site with the admin being able to edit lists. The problem is that I’m a newbie and that is way out of my league. Ive offered up 50.00 for someone to help me in the forums but no takers. Would still like to use paypal but this seems to be something I can do for now.

A very nice plugin!
Working with BuddyPress it would be very very usefull for me to have the possibility to add also a Groupname field.
DuckS, Netherlands

Sweet Baby J. Thanks for your edits to the plugin, Robert!

Hi,
Just to let you know that I installed Robert’s modified version and it works perfectly with WP 2.7

I’d like to submit another modified version of this great script. The changes I’ve made to the script allows for adding first and last names, setting a password and setting the role for the imports. I’m also using the more powerful method of account creation, “wp_insert_user” this allows a lot more in the way of adding nice things to the script and new account.

The import file or manually entered format is:

username|firstname|lastname|password|email|role

All fields except username and email are optional, but all fields must be delimited, ie:

fred|Fred|Rivers|mypassw0rd|fred@rivers.com|Editor
sam|Sam||sam@mypress.com|

Fred has everything assigned while Sam will be emailed his generated password and his role will be set to whatever was selected from the drop down box on the form.

I’d be interested in any comments on my changes. There have been quite a few changes, I suggest a diff of mine and the latest modified one.

My modified version can be found at:

http://www.gammaray-tech.com/scripts/dd-import-users-mod_wp27.php.txt

@Casey Lessard,
I’ve created such an enhanced version from the modified version above. It allows:

username|firstname lastname|email

The ‘firstname lastname’ can also be omitted if appropriate e.g.:

jbloggs||jbloggs@xyz.com

You can get it from: http://linuxcentre.net/wordpress/bulk-user-registration/

D’Arcy I would love to get a hold of your modified modified version. I work in a school district of 68,000 students where this could be useful. I use the unmodified version and tell blog admins to deal with the existing user and would love to not worry about it. Thanks.

Thank you to Dagon Design, your plugin has saved me hours.

This plugin is REALLY handy. Thank you SO much. I’m using it on a campus blogging service, and the profs are using it to batch enroll students to the class blog.

One thing they’re finding is that if a student already has an account on the WPMU site (another course, or individual blogs, etc…) that the import process fails.

Is there a way to handle the case of a user account already existing?

Hi there!
Thanks for the plugin! How do I modify the activation reminder email sent? I wanted to change the format and wording of it. Please advise. Thanks again.

I am trying to bulk upload around 5000 users. I have disabled the feature that sends the email as it is not required. The usernames, passwords and emails were added successfully but the passwords don’t seem to work unless I reset them using the Wordpress Web interface.
Is there a way to login to Wordpress without resetting the password?
Would appreciate some help on this.

Hi

Same problem as a few mentioned, the users are being added but in my tests no email was sent out. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Ian

I have installed the plug-in and it doesn’t appear to be sending out an email notification. Individuals are appearing as users, however, none of them know it. Any suggestions on what may be causing this? I’m using the default delimiter and have tried multiple times.

great plugin. But i have a question though, for example i have a blog in a domain with more than 30 authors (they have posts, etc) if ever I’m going to change my domain, could I export those 30 authors and import them using this plugin? Currently, WP can import categories, posts, pages only, right? I tried importing my authors but i realized it can’t.

Are you getting me though? hehehe.

I modified your plugin to allow for the importing of both new and existing users in WordpressMU blogs. Great educational blog potential!

Great plugin!

This plugin is great. I have a blog and this thing ij very helpful

Great plugin! Saved me tons of time. It should be standard built-in functionality for Wordpress mu.

The only difficulty I ran into was that the plugin happily accepted and inserted mixed case name which WP login does not recognize. WP login makes submitted names lower case and checks the DB against that, and of course, then, it cannot find a match if the names were entered with mixed case. I think it should be simple fix. I may go ahead and make the necessary change in my version.

But thanks anyhow for something very, very helpful.

Fantastic mod – just saved me loads of work in uploading 100 subscribers for a new blog. THANK YOU!

Happy to provide a improvement -
With 2.1, the names of the roles can change (and be added) – so rather than hard code the role names on the import screen, I have modified the code to request the list of available roles for the select at the bottom of the page.

on line 28, add $wp_roles to the global
global $wpdb, $wp_roles;

at line 228, replace the hard-coded list of roles with

		<?php
			if ( !isset($wp_roles) ) 
				$wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
			foreach ($wp_roles->get_names() as $role=>$roleName) {
			echo '<option value="'.$role.'">'.$roleName.'</option>';
			}
		?>

Hei! I find the problem now: I use the Themed Login Plugin (http://www.jameskelly.org/wordpress-plugins/custom-login-and-registration-forms-plugin/) but it was not config. There was the wrong e-mail in.

I´m sorry!
Markus

Hei!

How can i chance the sender-email-adress? the plugin use wordpress@gmail.com, but i will use another.

Thank´s a lot!
Markus

Works like a charm!

I would suggest for the next version an option to choose the delimiter and maybe even to upload a file: a comma would allow people to import from excel, and a space delimiter would allow for basic copy/paste… Many a php virgin will thank you for that.

Hi, thanks for that great script!
Thereare just two thinga:
- how gets the senders email choosen? In my case it uses an non-existing email which is a problem in case of replies and I don#t know where to change that.
- I’d like to edit the text that gets send.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks
Thomas

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What a great idea! I would like to try this for a membership site I’m creating. We use a membership management software that bridges the registrations over to the discussion forums. I’d like to use this to import the user info into the WP front end. Is it possible to import the existing password as well so we have the same login info all across the board?
Thanks again

one more question — do you have to enable anomynous users to sign up in order to run this plug in?