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First Real Plugin Modification - Importing Existing Users to New Blogs

Recently, I’ve been working quite extensively with WordpressMU. I’ve developed our school and teacher websites using it as the backbone. Recently, I started working with teachers to create project and topic specific blogs for instruction. The problem was there wasn’t a quick and easy way to import large numbers of users (i.e. classlists) into newly created blogs.

Dagon Design and Nicholas LaRacuente had developed a very nice plugin for importing users with just a username and emai. Unfortunately, this did not import existing blog users. I added a few lines of code to their work and now it adds both existing and new users during an import. This means you can dump classlists from you student info system and import right into your blogs.

This plugin comes without warrant. Use it at your own risk!

Edsysad mod of Dagon Design plugin

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2 Responses to “First Real Plugin Modification - Importing Existing Users to New Blogs”

  1. Ben Greenberg Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 9:39 am

    Hi. Your modified version of this plugin is just what I need. However, when after I uploaded it to the plugins directory in my mu 1.2.5 install, it broke the plugins administration page in the backend.

  2. admin Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    Hi Ben,

    I’m running it on a 1.2.4 install and a 1.3 install. I haven’t see anything weird in the backend. I wonder if it is a PHP version issue?

    If you send me a screenshot of what you see, I’ll see if I can figure it out. :)

    chlup_andrew [at] cox.net

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