- Importing users in bulk into WordPress can be really helpful when you have created a new website and want to automatically add all users from your existing website. If your user base is large then adding them is quite a time-consuming exercise.WordPress doesn’t have an inbuilt feature to transport users from one website to another.Import Users from CSV with Meta plugin for WordPress gets the job done in a jiffy of allowing you to import many users along with their metadata. With more than 20,000 active installs and actively updated, this plugin is fully focused on the user importing process.
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Some of the advantages of using Import Users from CSV with Meta plugin:
- Very fast support
- Easy plugin for WooCommerce
- Great tool for BuddyPress sites
- Helpful way of importing users who have email addresses as their usernames
So let’s see in steps how we can import bulk users into WordPress:
Step 1: Download the plugin from this link location https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/ and activate it.
Upon activation of the plugin, click on Import users from CSV.Step 2: Next, put together your spreadsheet of user data and create a CSV file with that data.
This CSV allows you to create different columns for username, email, password, address, city, state, zip, country and user’s website URL and enter all your user details under those columns.
After filling out the details upload the CSV to your site.Step 3: The plugin that you have downloaded, in that you will see Import users from CSV tab, click on Choose button and select your CSV file.
By using this plugin you can easily and quickly bulk upload users to WordPress. You can further have a look at the reviews of this plugin here https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/reviews/
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