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[Resolved] How to activate existing WP users as BP members effectively?

@jianzhi

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago

Hello,

I’ve run a WP blog site for years. Recently, I installed BP based on WordPress multi-sites. After directly import existing members from DB of WP blog site to new BP site, all users are NOT showing in the member list/directory.

According to my testing, in order to activate existing WP users as BP members, the user has to login. I am wondering whether there is effective way to activate all existing WP users as BP members?

Any ideas are appreciated!

Thanks,
Peter

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@sbrajesh

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago

Hi Peter,
The user does not need to login. You just need to add a user meta ‘last_activity’ for each user and they will appear on your member directory.

@jianzhi

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago

Thanks @sbrajesh !

@hnla

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago

@jianzhi
I needed this a while back for a bunch of existing users, so ran up a simple quick script to do this, wouldn’t run it on a production site but worked in my test environment for my purpose, you can copy and run if it helps:
https://github.com/hnla/force-show-bp-users/blob/master/force-show-bp-users.php

@jianzhi

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago

Thanks @hnla, it is very helpful!

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