Comments on: Import Users Plugin for WordPress

By: Jody

Jody — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:39:44 +0000

OK, I may be an idiot, but I’m trying to figure out how to get a list of names and emails which is now in a .csv format into the proper format required for this plugin. Just how is this done? Between the instructions of “Enable the plugin” and “Use it” there is a bit of a knowledge gap for me. The plugin requires the proper formatting, but how do you apply it to a .csv file?

Please, a step-by-step explanation for those of us who need it would be welcome!

By: TB

TB — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:51:11 +0000

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?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:17:06 +0000

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.

By: Ajay Kumar Singh

Ajay Kumar Singh — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:25:20 +0000

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

It gives Invalid username: error.

Any fix for it?

By: pipeops

pipeops — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:55:39 +0000

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

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:21:01 +0000

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?

By: Rubens

Rubens — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:17:29 +0000

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?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:43:25 +0000

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

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:20:43 +0000

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

By: Lila

Lila — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:55:14 +0000

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.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:44:21 +0000

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

By: Daniel Noll

Daniel Noll — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:50:51 +0000

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.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:25:44 +0000

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

By: Toby

Toby — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:42:01 +0000

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!

By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:00:24 +0000

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

By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:55:27 +0000

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!!

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:19:24 +0000

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).

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:56:38 +0000

This plugin has been tested, and works, with the latest release of WordPress – 2.8

To answer a few questions:

- I have no idea how many it can handle at once to be honest – I have not ever tested it. The main issue would be script execution time, since depending on the server config, a PHP script will only run for so long before stopping (for security reasons), so it really just depends on the config, and speed of the server.

- As far as security, it is just as secure as anything else in the admin panel – you have to be logged in as admin to use it

- This plugin does not handle ecommerce, paid subscriptions, etc. You would have to find another plugin to handle all that, and a plugin that handles paid subscriptions would already handle user creation itself.

By: Alan Guggenheim

Alan Guggenheim — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:34:23 +0000

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.

By: Olek

Olek — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:50:03 +0000

The password is not working.
It’s always send e-mail with generated password.
I want to use old password from the previuse system