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Okay… one more addendum…. I found a workaround:
This issue seems to occur in combination with WPS Hide Login, a caching service, and any theme or plugin that adds functionality to either the wp_Login_failed or wp_authenticate hooks.

I did a search for both of these in all my plugins and themes. They were both referred used in a membership plugin. I simply commented out the two lines connected to the “add_action()” commands that called those hooks, and it works perfectly now.
For further example, the lines looked like this:

add_action('wp_login_failed', 'name_of_custom_failed_login_function' );
add_action('wp_authenticate', 'name_of_custom_authentication_function',10,2);

**SIDE NOTE*** make sure to test your logins and failed logins. I got pretty lucky, but make sure that this doesn’t break anything that requires extra functionality.

Theoretically, this means there should be some JS (and probably css) files that output the error and control the shake that are messed up by caching. They may just need to be added as exceptions for my caching service. I don’t know what those are yet, but if I find them I will let you know. Mr. Kulka, if you would take a look at a similar setup with a CDN and a membership plugin (or plugin that lets you customize the look of wp-login.php) you should replicate this issue.

Actually, Nikolas, @teeboy4real I was researching through notes and saw a clue that may be the problem: If you route your DNS through a firewall or caching service, it breaks the error message functionality. Checking my “notes to be done” I see that this problem with my error messages on login began occurring when I setup a firewall service.

Hi There, I wanted to back up @teeboy4real here and mention that I notice the same behavior, error messages about wrong password won’t show. I *will* see cookies need to be activated errors when changing cache settings, however.

However, when I deactivate WPS Hide Login, errors about “wrong password” or “Username doesn’t exist” will return. When I deactivate all plugins except WPS Hide Login, the error messages still don’t show.

I would be happy to give you access to my test site if you would like to explore the issue further.

Hi Javier, no, there isn’t. just Username, email, First name, last name. I’m not necessarily tracking that, just adding users into my system. Is the user_ID required for automatic updating?

No worries, Javier, enjoy your holiday.

I have also tried this on a fresh site with just import-users installed. It seems I just can’t update users if they already exist.

I found the easiest thing to do was to install an instance of wordpress through my host provider (specifically to a subfolder of the site, like “mywebsite.com/export”.

Then, you login to the WordPress backend (in this example, “mywebsite.com/export/wp-admin” and login with the credentials for the bs site.

go to Tools>import and modify to your needs:

Website: “https://mywebsite.com”
Joomla Version
hostname: “localhost”
Port: 3306 (Contact your host provider for more info)
Database (these come from the home/configuration.php file, as mentioned –
var $host = ‘localhost’;
var $user = ‘This_value_is_your_database_username’;
var $db = ‘This_value_is_your_database’;
var $dbprefix = ‘This_is_the_Joomla_table_prefix_value’;

Also, you will need the DATABASE password (not the one you use to login to the Configuration Panel on your webhost provider’s page. I lost the password that I created when I originally created the joomla database (back in 2009?). So I had to go back to my host Cpanel, and create a new Database user (with new username and password) and assign it to the Database for the Joomla install (give this user full rights). I then modified the Joomla import to reflect this new user. Bam. It works.

Finally, went to export, and exported it as a xml file. It works on my local version using MAMP (or XAMPP).

Also, I noticed that my import runs smoother when I import items as pages rather than posts. When I did them as posts, I noticed that it wouldn’t import anything past a year ago.