Title: Transfer Users
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Transfer Users

 *  Resolved [killaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killaja/)
 * (@killaja)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-users/)
 * Hello,
 * I recently setup a new blog with wordpress and want to copy over all my users
   from the old blog database to the new one. How do I go about doing this? Do I
   export both wp_users and wp_usermeta tables?
 * Thanks for your help,
    Jordan

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-users/#post-478931)
 * Those would definitely be the (only) two tables you want to import.
 *  Thread Starter [killaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killaja/)
 * (@killaja)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-users/#post-478933)
 * Ok. And I definitely want to import BOTH??
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-users/#post-478936)
 * The users table holds the basic login and user account stuff, and should be considered
   the must-have one.
 * The usermeta table holds the user capabilities, any profile data set by the user
   and (potentially) anything set through a plugin. If you want users to retain 
   the same role, etc. then usermeta should be brought over, too.
 *  Thread Starter [killaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killaja/)
 * (@killaja)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-users/#post-478941)
 * ok great. thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [killaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killaja/)
 * (@killaja)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-users/#post-478946)
 * Almost forgot. One more question. The database I am exporting from is for wordpress
   2.0.4 and the one I am importing to is 2.0.5. Does this matter? Are their any
   differences in these tables for these 2 versions?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-users/#post-478949)
 * No, there was no change in the database schema for those two tables.
 *  [willyrs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willyrs/)
 * (@willyrs)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-users/#post-479261)
 * I’m trying to import a couple of thousand users from one WP blog to another. 
   How do I get to those two tables?
 * When I use backup I’m creating a file with a bunch of tables, right?
 * Then, how do I import them into the new blog?
 * Is this something I have to do at the server level or can I do it from within
   WP?
 * Thanks.
 * Willy Ritch

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