If you think of merge two WordPress websites, then you will need to export the users.

Many people inherit WordPress websites and use their login credentials on the new one. website inherited. They confuse the content written by these users with their own.

Although you can create new users manually and publish new content, you have to admit that this is a bit of a pain.

Go further by discovering How to have advanced user control on WordPress

In this tutorial, you will learn the best way to import and export WordPress users correctly.

But before, if you have never installed WordPress discover How to install a WordPress blog in 7 steps et How to search, install and activate a WordPress theme on your blog 

Then back to why we are here.

When should you consider exporting or importing users?

Many WordPress users try to consolidate their websites by adding content that has been published on a website older.

It may be a good idea to merge the content of the websites in this case.

As regards the website with members area, you may find this normal because in most cases, we start with a list of users that we integrate, and for this you will need a CSV file.

This file will consist of all the details of the users.

How to export users to your website

It's not new that you need a WordPress Plugin for such action.

Install and enable " Cimy user Manager And go to the location " Users> Cimpy User Manager ».

Scroll down and you will see some options for exporting existing users to your site.

You will see the download path of the CSV file that contains the saved data. The path will vary according to the storage location of each website.

A lot of people use it for a subdomain or when they have their site in a different domain.

You just need to check that the created path is writable.

The choice to separate the fields from the CSV file will be available. It will separate each field by a comma by default.

If you are thinking about using this CSV file everywhere else than WordPress then you can change it, otherwise it is not necessary.

WordPress user data can be stored depending on the option available in the drop-down menu.

I recommend leaving the rest of settings as they are. The default settings work correctly. Click on the "Export" button and you will see a message confirming the generation of files.

Use "Download Export File" button and the file will start downloading. Save it somewhere on your computer.

You have successfully exported WordPress users from a site.

Importing WordPress users

You must follow the same procedure. Install and activate the same plugin on another site and go to this location « Users> Cimy User Manager ».

The first option is to import WordPress users. Click the "Choose File" button and select the file from your computer.

You don't need to change anything in your choice, you can create the new users using this plugin only.

If you do, then check the box Create Users ". You can also choose to send an email to all existing users with the new password.

Although the creation of new users is sufficient. You may want to do it.

Click on the "Import" button and within seconds you will see a confirmation message on this page as you saw for the generation of the export files.

The best part about this plugin is that it will fill in all the user details that you just imported.

All new users will receive a message with a new password. They can login to the website and change the password if they wish.

That's it for this tutorial, I hope it will allow you to export and import users from your WordPress blog.