Multisite User Migration and Synchronization

  • Quentin

    (@egojab)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    We are migrating users from a previous platform that was a combination of 1 Magento and 2 WordPress sites, to one single WordPress multisite installation. We are going to be migrating the users from the Magento website, and asking them to confirm or activate their accounts, in doing so, we are also migrating their previous orders and other custom information. In the previous setup, on WordPress and Magento, all usernames were email addresses. Multisite limits usernames to lowercase letters and numbers, so we won’t be able to maintain that aspect moving forward, and we would like to have a consistent treatment for old and new users.

    Is there any way to migrate the users, maintaining their custom information, but allow them to choose a new username at the time of “confirming” their account and setting it up on the new multisite based setup?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Yikes….

    Well. You MIGHT want to script a way to either truncate the email and turn [email protected] into user, OR sanitize [email protected] into user_example_com, and then use a plugin like http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-email-login/ to let them log in with their emails.

    Thread Starter Quentin

    (@egojab)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    We are using cart2cart to transfer accounts to retain order histories, and it uses direct DB injection so it bypasses multisite’s limitations, we just want to be able to have users change usernames by way of a “confirmation” email after relaunch. Was hoping for some sort of solution without too much middlemen work, just so we can keep the order histories and everything transferred through. Something that can be done after the migration, on first sign in, not an all new registration.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I know of this plugin to let ADMINs change usernames – http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/username-changer/

    But I don’t know of one that lets USERS change their own usernames for WP, multisite or not.

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