Title: Export Avatar Data (feature request)
Last modified: January 26, 2023

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# Export Avatar Data (feature request)

 *  Resolved [Aharon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spaceling/)
 * (@spaceling)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-avatar-data-feature-request/)
 * I’m so incredibly grateful for Simple Local Avatar after the WP User Avatar debacle
   of April 2001. Thanks to the integrated migrate feature, I succeeded in moving
   all of my data over. But I’m still rather traumatized by the experience of possibly
   losing all of my user<->avatar associations (over 1,000 and growing on my site).
   
   So, I’d really like some manual export data option in Simple Local Avatars. (
   Perhaps also an import option.) I do use the plugin “[Import and Export Users and Customers](https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/)”(
   but I haven’t tested it in any migrate/restore scenario with the simple_user_avatar
   fields in the WP user_meta database table). I also make daily full database backups,
   but I can imagine some situations where a full restore is undesirable and one
   might want to restore from a manual export of the user<->avatar associations.
   I just want to give voice to this suggestion after not seeing anything yet in
   the forum search. If adding this feature is undesirable, it would be good to 
   explore more how to successfully do another manual export of the data and their
   restoration through a plugin like “[Import and Export Users and Customers](https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/)”(
   or any other means).
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by [Aharon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spaceling/).

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Darin Kotter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkotter/)
 * (@dkotter)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-avatar-data-feature-request/#post-16423529)
 * [@spaceling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spaceling/) Thanks for the suggestion!
   I could see this being helpful, even if just has a WP-CLI command. Would you 
   mind adding this as an issue on our [GitHub](https://github.com/10up/simple-local-avatars/issues)?
   Much more likely that this will get prioritized if it’s added there. Thanks!

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