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I understand and appreciate the plugin specific issues and I am very happy with what you’ve done so far. I tried to send you a proverbial cup of coffee on paypal but it was failing for some reason. I will try again this week.

OK sorry about #3 I forgot this was not default wp. I am using WP Member. The “activate” / deactivate is right in the WP Users list

Desired Result: I am migrating an existing site of active users into WP but I cannot do this in one step but it will take many steps probably over a year or more where both systems (WP and external DB) will remain active but the goal is to ultimately have WP completely in charge and completely deactivate the external db. Meanwhile I have thousands of spam users signing up and who have already signed up as well as “banned” users for whatever reason (trolls etc), on the legacy/external db but have been moderated over time to be inactive. In the external db there are two fields that indicate this so that is helpful in the Exclude Users beta mapping and I do not want those accounts to activate on the WP side.

For #1 I will want to turn off new user account registrations on the external db and use WP instead, so there will be no future account activations from the external db, but there are thousands of active accounts on the external db and exponentially more that are either not active or suspended in the external db. So I want the good users from the external db to have a seamless login to the WP site.

#2 yes two fields actually but in a negative not a positive “activated”. “disabled” requires a 1 toggle as does “suspended”

Thank you for the quick reply. First, updating the code worked! To answer your question, I was running 5.6. I updated it to 7.2 but that did not resolve the issue even after restarting apache and emptying cache. When I updated the code then it worked.

Thank you very much.

Paul