Hey all, Maybe I am missing something, but how do I achieve the following? Existing Wordpress site containing hundreds of registered members. New Discourse self hosted installation using Wordpress as SSO provider. I need to import all of the existing Wordpress Users into Discourse so that they d…

Are you trying to migrate users to Discourse or to Discord? If you are using WordPress as the SSO provider for Discourse with the WP Discourse plugin, enabling the Create or Sync Discourse Users on Login option should accomplish what you are looking for. Discourse users will be created from WordPre…

@simon Discourse sorry. I have that option enabled, but I don’t want the users to HAVE to login in order to be created in Discourse. Due to the users technical ineptitude, I need to mass import them into Discourse without any interaction from them. The VAST majority of the users will never actual…

There are a few ways you could approach it. If you are ok with doing some programming, there are some static functions that the WP Discourse plugin makes available for sites that are using WordPress as the SSO provider for Discourse. The functions are in this file: https://github.com/discourse/wp-d…

Awesome thanks. And if I am not confident with a bit of programming?

What I posted above might be the easiest way to get your existing users into WordPress. If you have a budget, you could create a topic in our Marketplace category to find someone to do the work for you. If you don’t have a budget, you could plead with your users to login to your WordPress site. If …

Depending on your situation, the easiest thing to do would be to not use SSO to log users into Discourse. Then you could just export a list of users from WordPress, extract their email addresses into a CSV file, and use the Discourse bulk invite functionality to invite them to your forum. You could …

Sounds like what you should do is do an import of the existing data. Can you get mbox files of the list?

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lukemccallum (Luke McCallum) December 13, 2019, 1:49am 7

Thanks @simon.
I have posted in the Marketplace.

Thanks for your assistance.

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