• mvsr

    (@mvswathireddy)


    Wasted 2 days on this plugin! It says you can upload all user types including ‘Store Vendors’, but data does not get populated. Not only that, this import messed up login details of my current users as well. Just a waste of time. I wish they had clear documentation on how to prepare your data for upload. When asked, the owner made comments like I was dumb in asking if they had data preparation templates (excel or csv). I do not think that is a dumb question at all. I have done 100s of data migrations on complex systems using tools such as Informatica etc. and it is a very common practice to create data migration templates, data mapping and transformations before loading the data.

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  • Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    @mvswathireddy,

    I will try to explain the problems you have had with this plugin, which are the same you will have with any other plugin unless the plugin on which you want to import WCFM data offers some kind of importer.

    About the “Store Vendors” import message

    Actually what appears there is that there is a role in your system named that way, as there could be another one that is a store manager or any other.

    The data is not mapped

    This plugin and any other plugin to import users works against the user and usermeta tables which are the standard ones.

    WCFM probably uses data in its own tables, serialized data in certain cases and surely also post type data with its corresponding taxonomy.

    You would have to do a custom development to read from a CSV raw data and transfer it to your site. We have done it with many plugins but not that one, here you have the list that is free: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/trunk/addons

    But of course, WCFM does not appear, yet.

    About lost logins

    You just had to read the documentation to avoid that. See how the “password” column is treated and there you have the answer to your problem.

    About the template

    There can be no template to import data into a system that uses data stores that are not supported here or in any other plugin of this style.

    I hope I have clarified everything and I thank you not only that this plugin is available for free, but also that I have answered you during my vacation from my cell phone to help you.

    It is not fair that by a confusion or lack of understanding on your part you put this kind of assessments that do so much damage to a project like this, in which I spend dozens of hours for free developing code and giving support.

    The luck is that most of the users appreciate this work, but these evaluations stain our dedication and make me feel really sad.

    I think you have no complaints about the speed at which I have served you and if I have not been able to clarify this before is because from the mobile being a Spanish speaker it is very difficult for me to answer you in English and give you all the details.

    I hope you read this, that the community reads it and that you think again about this evaluation.

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