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Version 1.2 Updated Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 7:19pm

Import Users Plugin for WordPress

This plugin was created for people who need to easily add multiple users to their WordPress installation. Simply give it a list of usernames and email addresses, specify the role of the users (subscriber, author, admin, etc.) and it does the rest. It will automatically email each user and give them their randomly generated password, or let you specify one. It also has validation in place to make sure the usernames do not already exist, that the email addresses are not already in use, that the usernames are valid, etc. After it processes the information, it tells you how many were added, and upon error, gives you the reason why each failed.

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Latest Release (For WordPress 2.0 through 2.8+)

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Changelog

02-19-09 Version 1.2 – Updated modified version with contributions by Robert McKenzie (Thanks Robert!). Changes include the ability to specify a password, as well as first/last names.
06-12-07 – Modified version by Nicholas LaRacuente added (download link above).
05-03-07 Version 1.1 – Updated to take advantage of the customizable roles feature in WordPress 2.1. This update was contributed by Tom Ransom.
08-06-06 Version 1.0 – First release.

Instructions

Download the above file, rename it from .txt to .php, and upload it to your plugins directory.
Enable the plugin.
Use it by going to ‘Settings -> DDImport Users’

Usage

The userdata is entered in the following format:

username|firstname|lastname|password|email|role
username|firstname|lastname|password|email|role
username|firstname|lastname|password|email|role
etc…

To clarify, that is one user per line, with a pipe character between the values. Extra whitespace and empty lines are trimmed automatically. Be sure your data is entered properly! If you do not want to assign a password, first name, or last name, just do not enter them. The field separators are still required. Example:

username||||user@domain.com|

After you have added your user data, you can choose the role for the users with the drop down box. The choices are: Subscriber (default), Contributor, Author, Editor, and Administrator.

If the password is not specified, one will be randomly generated. In either case, the password is emailed to the user.

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114 Comments on “Import Users Plugin for WordPress”

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105

TB

10-30-09 4:51PM

This is just what we needed, THANK YOU! Now, is there any way modify the email that is sent to the users when their account is created?
104

Mark

10-24-09 5:17PM

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.
103

Ajay Kumar Singh

10-7-09 11:25AM

This plugin fails if the password contains some special characters such as / . etc

It gives Invalid username: error.

Any fix for it?
102

pipeops

10-6-09 10:55AM

How do you modify the email that is sent to the users when their account is created?
101

Matt

9-29-09 9:21PM

Wordpress 2.8.4, plugin does not seem to work at all. Just changes back to the generic Tools screen and nothing has been imported. Tried both pasting data in and from a file…oh well. Any other way to do this, anyone is aware of?
100

Rubens

9-23-09 4:17PM

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?
99

Mike

9-16-09 10:43AM

I am sorry that I have made a mistake, this plug-in will not send newly added users emails automatically. Tks!
98

Mike

9-16-09 10:20AM

Thanks for making such great plug-in, may I know if I can import the users without sending them emails? Tks!!
97

Lila

9-6-09 10:55PM

Thank you so much for this plugin. I was dreading creating 200 new users by hand!
But it took me a long time to find your plugin. Why not add it to the WordPress Plugin Directory?

Again, thanks.
96

Bradley

9-5-09 6:44PM

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
95

Daniel Noll

8-26-09 6:50PM

Users are being added successfully, but the password is auto-generated in each case…instead of the password I’ve specified.

Any idea why this would be happening?

I love the concept of this plugin and would like to use it to save a day’s worth of manual user input.
94

Barry

8-14-09 4:25PM

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
93

Toby

8-7-09 4:42AM

Will this let me export from one WP install and import to another? I don’t want to have to write out all the roles by hand if I don’t have to!
92

Kenny

7-19-09 11:00PM

Hi, I found it:
Tools -> DDImportUsers
Thanks!!
91

Kenny

7-19-09 10:55PM

Thanks for the plugin! I activated it in WP2.8.1 (self-hosted) but it seems that I cannot find:
Settings -> DDImport Users
Please help, tks!!

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