Validating Existing Members During Signup

I have an organization that is moving from static HTML site to WordPress. Their membership data (contact info, email, etc.) is in an excel file. Many of the email addresses are work email addresses and many of those people have long since moved to other companies and don’t have access to the email address we have on file for them anymore.

We are thinking that we want to upload the existing user data to WordPress and

1. For those we have good eamils for, have go to the site and use forgot password to generate a password so they can log in.

2. For those we have lost touch with or with expired email addresses, we will be doing advertising and social media outreach to ask them to come to the site and reconnect with us by updating their information.

I’m trying to figure out a good way to handle the #2 use case above. I could just have complete a new registration on our site new and we could try to manually reconcile the info we have in excel with the info they put into their registration profile, but it would be good if they could get validated somehow when they come to our site, get succesfully logged in (or password reset, or something), see the info we have on them, and then update anything that isn’t correct, including email address.

Has anyone done something like this before?

Thanks!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic