I learnt this the hard way . I recently re installed on my blogs. I had 5000 registered users in that blog. I did a back up of my users from the blue host cpanel.

WordPress plugins for import users does not work

Then i re installed the blog and tried one wordpress back up plugin after the other and they all failed to import my CSV back up file of the 5000 users. I typed import users and tried the first five plugins that import users with csv files . There was one that at least did something and worked , but worked wrong ( CSV user import – Visit plugin site). It uploaded the file but put the passwords salts as the username.

It got all messed up, then i realised in should have done this in the first instance. I went back to my bluehost cpanel / php admin where i did the back up in the first place , and then deleted all the wrong entries that got uploaded ( deleted 400 entiries in one go and repeated—maybe you can do more than 400 )

Then i clicked import and imported the csv file an hey presto in a second all the 5000 users were back up.

This goes to prove that use the same tool or process to export and the same tool to import , wether it is from the php my admin or then from the wordpress admin panel , make sure the plugin does import and export or then the same author of the toll has created similar plugins for import or export ,w hereby you have a better chance of them working both ways together.

Also attached some snapshots of the cpanel and php my admin in blue host.

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