Not Updating Display Name

  • Resolved indental

    (@indental)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    I’m trying to use the plugin to update a list of users who were originally created with this plugin. Even though I used “display_name” (lower case letters) as the field name, the field did not import correctly on my first upload (username was used instead; several users have no display name set at all).

    I am now trying to update the display_names for all my users (2,800+). The plugin will update all fields except the display_name. The display_name is not changing at all when I import the new CSV.

    Any suggestions?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/

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  • Thread Starter indental

    (@indental)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    I just uploaded a new user and I can see that the display_name was correctly written to the wp_users table but was left blank in the wp_usermeta table. When I started using this plugin several months ago, the display_name was correctly written to the usermeta table. I’m not sure why it isn’t anymore. Is there a work around?

    Thread Starter indental

    (@indental)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve updated the display_name field in the usermeta table with a sql query, but it would be great to not have to do this every time we have new users in the future.

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, I am out now as soon as I arrive I read this thread and I answer it.

    Thanks.

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Good morning,

    I am online now. This is strange, nothing has changed in this part of the plugin.

    Maybe the function has changed his way of work, I would do a fix for it.

    In next version it will be included.

    Update it when it will be updated and if it fails, create a new thread please.

    And yes, help us with a donation or a good review. It is difficult to use time in this kind of projects if none help us.

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    indental,

    This is really strange, in WordPress Documentation it appears as a users data and not as a user_meta data.

    Look at: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

    Thread Starter indental

    (@indental)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    This change was made in a recent update of WordPress. Your plugin worked fine for me until WP codex was updated.

    I will definitely donate to the plugin’s maintenance since this is a very valuable plugin that I will be using often. Do you think your next release will address this

    Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Yes I can do it, but yes, please donate it is hard to work for free every day.

    Which metadata should we use? display_name?

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