Need Password hash in multiuser create

@mdarh411,

If you use the password column it will be used as a plain text password and if you want to use hashed passwords, please use user_pass.

This is explained in the documentation.

@carazo – can you explain how we actually hash a plaintext password?

For example, I tried to just set a default password for multi-users (i.e.: Password123). The goal was to have users log in and then reset their password in the front-end member portal.

However, whenever I upload a plaintext password, it force-directs users to the /wp-admin page to reset their password. I can’t seem to get it to force-direct to the front end. This causes major confusion for members. Subsequent logins have no access to this part of the website.

I have no problem hashing the password, if that works better, but when I use “user_pass” with the same password, it isn’t recognized at all.

@doubles69,

If you read documentation you can see that:

• Password column: for your case, for example Password123
• user_pass column: if you have hashed columns because you are migrating users from other site