Import Process Could Use Some Work

  • I am definitely happy with the way that full usermeta is exported with this plugin as opposed to some other user import/export tools I’ve used. In a site with over 5,000 users which I need to migrate, the export process was stable (though slow-ish) with paged ajax requests to pave the way and update you on progress. Smooth sailing so far!

    To my dismay, the import process was not nearly as fleshed out as I had hoped. It’s a single POST request that can easily time out with no status indication at all if you have a large file. I attempted uploading the csv file directly to the server and using that option with the same result. In the end, I had to use bash scripts to split my 5,000+ row CSV file into chunks of 100 users and import each one by hand, a very tedious process.

    This plugin desperately needs to revise it’s import experience to match the effectiveness of the export experience. The actual functionality, options, and result is fantastic otherwise.

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  • Plugin Author Javier Carazo

    (@carazo)

    Yes, I know that the import process would have to be done in the same way as the export process. There are several reasons for this.

    The import process was the initial one, so the whole way of designing it was done in one step. The export is different, it’s more recent and it was easier to do the multi-step with AJAX calls.

    In any case it’s something I have to improve and the problem, why it’s not done yet is because I have family and work and this is a free plugin to which I dedicate all the time I can but sometimes I lack to make improvements like the one you are talking about.

    I’m sorry but I hope you value the speed in which we give support, the few limitations in the version available in the repository and everything we work for free so that the free plugin is the best of its kind.

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