Automatically matching users in wordpress posts import

Hi,

I thought I’d share a bit of code I wrote to update the WordPress Blog import feature to automatically pick a match to the blog posting’s author.

in the file

/wp-admin/import/wordpress.php

at line 264 there is a for loop, replace with this :

foreach ($users as $user) {

			similar_text($user->display_name, $author, $percentage);

			$percentage = floor($percentage);

			if($percentage > 95)
				$strSelected = ' selected="selected" ';
			else
				$strSelected = '';

			echo '<option value="'.$user->user_id.'"'.$strSelected.'>'.$user->user_login." : ".$user->display_name." : ".$percentage.'</option>';
		}

That will automatically pick the user in the system that matches the author of the blog based upon the names. It will also print out a percentage of name matches, just in case your names are similar.