User names same but e-mail address different

  • ladybt

    (@ladybt)


    2 years ago

    Hi,

    I actually managed quite good to import Users -as partially- to new website , except one problem.

    would you please help me to import my users list to my new wordpress website “without plug in”?

    I have used “import users from csv with meta” plug in.

    ( Related plug in support team already replied my question that “WordPress forces each user to have a unique username and e-mail” , so they are telling is not related plug in problem )

    The problem is; if there are “same name Users” with different e-mail address, the plug in ignore whole line User detail and import only one of them.

    For example, if there are 3 separate “Adam named User” and all of them have different e-mail address , the plug in is importing only one of Adam , and two other same named User lines ignore.

    Is there a way to fix this directly from WordPress , not with Plug in? I actually need only to import “user names and e-mail address” , no need for passwords or etc.

    I am trying to learn a method maybe by adding a php script contains that not forcing “unique username and unique e-mail address” by the system while importing user name & e-mail address list ???

    Why we can not have users list which contains “same names” but with different e-mail addresses ?

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  • George Appiah

    (@gappiah)

    2 years ago

    Why we can not have users list which contains “same names” but with different e-mail addresses ?

    Name (for display purposes) and username (a user identifier) are two different things. There are no restrictions on first names, last names, nicknames, or any display name — but username is the author’s unique public identifier, which, among other things, is used to construct author URLs — like your @ladybt username here on this very forum which also runs WordPress.

    This is no different from other software platforms like Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, etc — all of which have unique public @ handles and unique email addresses.

    Is there a way to fix this directly from WordPress , not with Plug in? I actually need only to import “user names and e-mail address” , no need for passwords or etc.

    However you end up doing this, note that changing something fundamental like this in WordPress is likely to cause you problems down the road. I’ll advise that you rather sanitize your user list before importing to ensure you have unique usernames and email addresses.

    And note that if you merely want to maintain a mailing list, you don’t even need to create WordPress user accounts for these users at all. The mailing list should be maintained directly by your mailing list plugin or external email service provider.

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