Simple Membership member attributes and wp meta data

[bob2016]

I have Simple WordPress Membership 3.2.8 running on WordPress 4.5.3. My goal is to import existing member data from a spreadsheet and have them end up in the Simple Membership table. My best effort so far is to use the “amr users” plug-in to load the members (including meta data such as address, phone, etc.) into WP, and then use the Simple Membership WP user Import 1.4 add-on to pull them into the Simple Membership table. My problem is that the members’ meta data is sitting in the WP meta table and only the members’ usernames and e-mail addresses are pulled across to Simple Membership. When a new member logs in his profile will be empty, and if he updates his profile it will be out of sync with the wp meta data.

Is there a way to switch the Simple Membership Profile to view (and update) WP meta data directly, or to synchronize the two?

[mbrsolution]

Hi, you could try the following. Import the users into WordPress, then use the import add-on to import the WordPress users into Simple Membership plugin.

[bob2016]

Thanks for responding. What you are asking me to do is exactly what I have described doing in my initial post. Sorry if that was not clear.

[mbrsolution]

When you say Meta Data, can you provide more information please.

Thank you

[bob2016]

Phone
Street
City
State
Zipcode
Country

[mbrsolution]

Hi, currently those fields are not imported when using WP User Import add-on.

[TroyWolf]

I’d like to echo @bob2016. The import users plugin is great, but it assumes you already have a WordPress site full of users. Like Bob, I’m starting a fresh WordPress site for an existing club with about 100 members.

The club has all these members in a spreadsheet. I am familiar with manipulating data for CSV import, but SM does not offer an import tool that works this way.

I am very comfortable with MySQL and can import data directly, but I’m not confident I know all the tables I need to touch to correctly import my user data. Clearly I need to import both into WP’s original user tables and SM tables, but as Bob points out, I gain little if I can’t import all my custom registration form fields.

I guess I could import minimum user data into WP, then figure out how to automate the saving of the full registration data from a CSV file.

[mbrsolution]

Hi, @TroyWolf I have submitted a message to the plugin developers to further investigate your request.

Thank you

[bob2016]

If this gets addressed I’ll take another look at Simple Membership. Meanwhile, I have switched to Profile Builder in combination with
– Paid Member Subscriptions (to manage membership expiration dates)
– MailChimp for WordPress (to sync members with our MailChimp mailing list)
– Import Users from CSV with Meta (to load my existing members and their meta data)
– User Profile Meta Manager (for users to manipulate all meta fields via WP user profile)
– Members (to create custom roles and manage their capabilities)
– Admin Menu Editor (to control what backend menu items are accessible to each custom role)
– amr users (to create nice online listings of selected member information)
– Front End PM (for member-to-member communication without us exposing email addresses or phone numbers)

[Samuel VINCENT]

thanks for your answer ! you saved my life with Events manager plugin that store address et phone number into meta fields.
with User Profile Meta Manager, i recreated the same fields as those of the initial events manager form and voila!

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