Import Users from CSV

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1. ★★★★★ deverecreative

   1.1y ago

   This plugin notified all 150 users from a staging site they we were working on. This is despite choosing the box not to notify new users. I am receiving a slew of angry and confused emails. Thanks for nothing… I should have just added them manually.

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2. ★★★★★ mattthedev

   2.0y ago

   If you have a list of 2-3 users, things work fine. If you scale up to anything larger than that, it times out pretty quickly. At that point, just create them manually.

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3. ★★★★★ oleostudio

   2.4y ago

   The external plug-in used to work perfectly, since they force us to use this plugin for Paid Memberships Pro I have had nothing but failures. Constantly exceeds the memory of the server, error 500 constantly, I deleted the import_membership_id field damaging many logical programming that I have on my site with this field … They should give the option to use this or the previous one. This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by oleostudio.

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4. ★★★★★ Zacher

   4.0y ago

   Worked really well. Two tips for new users: 1) Use the example CSV file to get your data formatted for import 2) Ensure you use ALL the columns required (you don’t need to worry about the custom ones) Thanks for saving me loads of pain importing multiple users.

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5. ★★★★★ jykiddie

   4.3y ago

   I downloaded this plugin in desperation yesterday and it did exactly what I needed it to. The sample of what the csv file should look like enabled me to merge data from MailChimp and WooCommerce to add user to the site, so they could log in. Terrific plug-in!

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6. ★★★★★ Adedayo Makinde

   5.1y ago

   It met my need immediately. Thank you for creating and maintaining this plugin.

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7. ★★★★★ zarakilian

   7.6y ago

   Update 1.0.1 works great, definitely recommend this plugin. Thanks

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8. ★★★★★ fafani

   9.5y ago

   Hello, Just I want to say thanks very much for your plugin. it helps me to develop my custom plugin to import a custum database. BIG thanks :)) This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by fafani.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.3.1 bug fix: restore missing notice file 1.3.1
2. — Version 1.3 bug fix: don’t instantiate serialized objects 1.3
3. — Version 1.2 BUG FIX: Ensure user running import has the ability to add users Update tested to minor UI update 1.2
4. — Version 1.1 ENHANCEMENT: Added support for WPCLI (@mircobabini) ENHANCEMENT: Added support for multiple roles during import, use comma-separated value for multiple roles (@mircobabini) ENHANCEMENT: Removed password nag option as thi 1.1
5. — Version 1.0.1 Fixed timeout bug on import. Improved settings area layout. General code refactor and improved security. Screenshot update. 1.0.1
6. — Version 1.0.0 Fixed bug where importing fields with “0” value doesn’t work Added option to update existing users by username or email 1.0.0

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. High · 7.2 Import Users from CSV <= 1.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) PHP Object Injection ↗
   2024-04-12 CVE-2024-32431 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affects <= 1.2 Patched in 1.3

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1. 2026-03-16 20K+ → 10K+ down

Competes with

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Import Users from CSV: 10K+ active installs, 4.1★ (44 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/import-users-from-csv