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Thank you for the tip about the login page, that was helpful. But I don’t see any reference to the !!membership_level_confirmation_message!! in the ‘Advanced’ settings. Could that have changed with the recent version update (I am running v3.1)?

Nevermind! I figured it out. The users page doesn’t break if you select 300 users per page in the screen options. So I can have 300 users per page and click the ‘select all’ checkbox and then click ‘Bulk Actions’, select the usergroup I want to add them to, then click on ‘apply.’ The only issue is that will 4500 users that is about 15-16 pages to repeat that process. Not a big deal.

But you have to remember, after you add all the users to the usergroup, then you have to edit your forum (or multiple forums or all of them) to require membership in that usergroup for them to be visible.

Then, for newly registered users, you can review their applications or IP address or ‘reason for joining’ criteria and then manually add them to the ‘approved’ usergroup and then can see and post.

Thank you for your reply. That is quite easy and obvious and I have read those articles in my research. But both articles assume that certain roles have previously been assigned. I have thousands of users who registered over the years who have never signed in (and have questionable usernames and email addresses, likely spammers). All of these have the role “user” or “subscriber”. Not much help.

But the first article mentions using a plugin “Bulk Delete”. But there is a warning on the page that says it has not been tested for the 3 latest versions of WordPress.

Additionally, all of the options are to delete posts of varying kinds. I want to delete thousands of users who have never posted. If someone has not even logged in for over a year I want them gone.

Is there a database query that might perform this? (I have a staging website and can duplicate the database to test with first.)