happynuclear

Hi Frede,

Thanks for the kind comments. I’ve kind of been neglecting this plugin for a while as I’ve been in and out of hospital and working hard to pay the bills.

I am working to include this and many other features into the 1.3 release. I’ve had certain difficulties in allowing custom roles as it seems the various plugins out there handle custom roles differently (even though the core concept is the same) and it is a bit confusing for a mid-level developer like me.

Rest assured it is coming!

Ok another test time, if you’re willing!

In the Skip Form function I have replaced the wp_create_user and update_user_meta functions with the insert_user function and a couple of direct additions to user meta data for multisite.

I am hoping this will create less load on the function – it worked for me adding 10,000 users, but then, the last one did as well and did not work for you.

The real issue with going a step further than this is that I don’t want to bypass WordPress functions like ‘insert_user’ and go straight to database inserting just with sql. I want WordPress to handle it, however, if it has to be done, it has to be done!

If you’d like to test it out, visit this page:

http://www.happynuclear.com/sandbox/amu/add-multiple-users-for-wordpress.php

And below the Download link is a link to the beta test version. Just grab this file, replace multiadd.php in the plugin folder with this new version and give it a shot!

You’re welcome, I hope it works out! Not much of a bulk function if it doesn’t work in bulk!

Thanks for the php info too, that definitely will come in handy.

Make sure you do the set_time_limit thing before you try adding heaps of users – when I added 10,000 it took a while to power through it!

Alright, I cracked it. Yay.

Am doing some further testing and code clean up then will update to 1.2.2 version soon.

After you upload your file, after the file contents have been added to the scroll box, there will be another button to skip the form and just straight add the users. This is a similar but different function that bypasses the creating of form lines on the page. As it progresses through each line of the CSV, it will find matching entries with usernames/emails and ignore them, giving a simple error saying that user or email already exists, and move on to the next line.

Because it takes a while (I just added 10000 users to my blog!) it does require this line:

set_time_limit(0);

added to the wp-config.php file above the ‘that’s it, happy blogging’ line – this is to stop WordPress from cancelling the function loop after its default 30 secs. It did take a good five mins of the browser ‘thinking’ before the adding of 10,000 was complete, but it worked nonetheless.

Hi Bamajr,

Sorry for the slow response – it seems the forum ate my last post…

I have been testing it out and my server, with a php memory limit of 64M (with script limit of 32M) seems to be able to do up to 550 registrations at once without running into the issues you list above. If I attempt to do anything over that I get the same thing as you – it says it has processed but nothing actually happens.

I think without really being able to jack up the memory limit on the server its going to make it very difficult to do 10,000 at a time. I’ve requested an increase to test it out and make sure its the memory limit breaking it, but am yet to hear back from the host.

There is another alternative, if you’re running php 5.3 – a ‘garbage collection’ command can be invoked to clear out the memory. My server is running 5.2 so I can’t test it out, but if you are running 5.3 I could create a modified version of the plugin and send it to you to test out.

Sorry its being such a pain to use – honestly I didn’t expect anyone to want to add so many accounts to a WP site at once, but obviously I underestimated that and do apologise. Hopefully we can find a solution.

Hi Bamajr,

Thanks for the question – will be responding to your other post in a moment.

I was just playing with the adding of an email address in the username field and it seems to accept email addresses as usernames both in the manual input and CSV section.

Is the issue that you have the CSV data and want to use the same column of info, the email address, as both the username and the email and the Custom Column Order function does not have the facility for that? Or is it actually throwing you an error when you try to put email addresses in the username field?

Cheers, look forward to your response!