{"id":12795528,"date":"2020-05-07T09:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T09:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/how-to-not-update-role-for-existing-users\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T09:19:47","slug":"how-to-not-update-role-for-existing-users","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/how-to-not-update-role-for-existing-users\/","title":{"rendered":"How to not update role for existing users?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am using this plugin to bulk update meta-data for existing users.<\/p>\n<p>However the update always changes the user role, either to the default role or a specified role &#8211; depending on settings or role data in the import file.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any way to leave the existing role(s) intact?<br \/>\nMaybe the same way as meta data is left unchanged in the field is declared but empty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-12795528","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-role"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/12795528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/12795528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12795528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}