Title: Capabilities
Last modified: May 11, 2017

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# Capabilities

 *  [jakus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakus/)
 * (@jakus)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-16/)
 * Hi there,
 * I was wondering how we’d go about importing Capabilities with this plugin?
 * It’s for a membership section that assigns its users with a custom Capability.
 * I’ve tried using a column titled ‘capabilities’ but it hasn’t worked. Seems to
   be ignored.
 * Also can we import user meta items, using meta_keys? How would we format this
   in the CSV?
 * Any help you can offer would be appreciated.
 * Cheers,
    J

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 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-16/#post-9119948)
 * [@jakus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakus/),
 * Currently this is not possible directly. You can try to do it using a serialized
   value but this is not user-friendly.
 * If you want, we could do some kind of special column for this with a syntax of
   this kind: capability0, capability1…
 * What do you think? I would need your support to be able to do it and include 
   in a new version.
 *  Thread Starter [jakus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakus/)
 * (@jakus)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-16/#post-9119985)
 * It’s pretty vital that we get it included, so I am happy to help in any way I
   can.
 * Would this also cover any user_meta fields that could also be imported?
 * Regards,
    J
 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-16/#post-9119998)
 * [@jakus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakus/),
 * Ok write me to carazo AT codection DOT com and we talk about the support.
 * Currently any user_meta field can be imported 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [jakus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakus/)
 * (@jakus)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-16/#post-9120056)
 * Sorry how do I go about importing a user_meta field?
 * Do I just include the meta_key name from the DB as a column header?
 * I couldn’t see anything in the documentation..
 * Cheers,
    J
 *  Thread Starter [jakus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakus/)
 * (@jakus)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-16/#post-9120073)
 * Also; do I need to format the meta_value in this particular way (as an example):
 * a:1:{i:0;s:17:”dashboard_primary”;}
 * Cheers,
    J
 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-16/#post-9120075)
 * Yes, in this way!

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 * [capabilities](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/capabilities/)
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 * [user_meta](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user_meta/)

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 * Last reply from: [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-16/#post-9120075)
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