Title: Exclude Users?
Last modified: October 23, 2023

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# Exclude Users?

 *  [johnywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnywhy/)
 * (@johnywhy)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-users-6/)
 * can i exclude users, so on import the users on the destination site don’t get
   overwritten by users in the backup?

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 *  Plugin Support [Delicious Brains Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbisupport/)
 * (@dbisupport)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-users-6/#post-17152870)
 * Hi [@johnywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnywhy/),
 * WP Migrate Support Team here. Thanks for reaching out with your query, we would
   be happy to assist!
 * Even though you can exclude users when exporting a database, you might not be
   able to avoid overwriting users on the destination site. What you’re describing
   sounds like ‘database merging’.
 * Merging databases is a tough problem which WP Migrate doesn’t support. WP Migrate**
   replaces** database tables at the migration destination.
 * Something our team has done in the past is use production as the ‘master’ database
   and pulled in changes to the dev/staging environment they’ve been made.
 * Another option is keeping track of the changes you’ve made in dev/stage and manually
   applying them to production.
 * Iain wrote about how to merge data with custom ‘migration scripts’. These are
   essentially code level changes that instruct the database how to change.
 * [https://deliciousbrains.com/syncing-wordpress-database-changes-merging/](https://deliciousbrains.com/syncing-wordpress-database-changes-merging/)
 * As I mentioned, it’s a tough problem and many other WordPress developers are 
   also battling this issue.

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-users-6/#post-17152870)
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