Batch creation of blogs and users in WPMU
This task is part of the FellowshipHacks/Projects/Blog project.
Goal
To automate the data migration, all the existing Fellows user accounts and blogs must be created automatically on the WPMU platform.
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Status
Last updated on: 090128
Done.
The WPMU+LDAP feature to automatically create users+blogs can be used in batch mode (using wget).
Since we don't know all plaintext passwords for users that must be created, we set up a temporary LDAP directory with all users sharing a known password, to be used at user-creation time only.
Subtasks
TODO
DONE
Tested successfully the batch user+blog creation feature of the LDAP plugin using wget (as we do for FellowshipHacks/Projects/Blog/BatchRSS) using a known LDAP password.
- Tested the "fake LDAP directory" solution to the password problem
Notes
Available solutions
These are the only references I found on this topic (I've searched WP(MU) official sites and third party sites)
Two solutions are mentioned:
csv2blog script
This is a script to mass-create blogs on WPMU
TODO:
- Test it
Please note that the current version of the LDAP plugin doesn't have yet a feature to create multiple users at once; see the release notes (and comments): http://www.frozenpc.net/s9y/archives/285-WPMU-Ldap-Plugin-2.6-Released!.html
WP import users plugin
This is a WP plugin to create users for an existing blog; likely it won't work on WPMU.
Maybe it's easy to tweak it to create blogs on WPMU (optimistic 
Possible custom solution
Some initial notes:
- Write a mysql script to clone the WPMU tables initially created for new users/blogs
- In this way we also have full control on default blog/user settings