I've just updated my plugin to export all your blog's users, or even all your commenters, to a CSV file. The plugin now exports the first name, last name and nickname into the CSV as well, and leaves out some of the stuff it would previously export too, like password hashes.
This plugin, aptly named the users to CSV plugin, still is a perfect way to kick start your mailing list, or just to do a one time e-mail to get the attention of anyone who's commented on your blog.
or to display them in a map? :p
Hehe no I wasn't planning on doing that :)
I know you said "one-time", but that would still be classed as spam, surely? Moreover, if you've got thousands of commenters as some blogs surely have, that's going to be a big mailout that might catch the attention of your ISP and get you blacklisted or banned.
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I would think that leaving a comment on a blog with an email address would not necessarily constitute spam should the blog owner decide to email everyone.
That issue could be covered in the comment policy. However, all it takes is one complaining person to put the lights out on a site.
I know from the experience of others, web hosts will cut you off before they ask any questions.
I agree with Terry there, and about the host: well... that depends on your host :) They don't "just" shut down dedicated servers like the one this site is running on.
I like systems when you pull users to do some action and this is one of the ways how you can do that.
This is an excellent plug-in, thank you. I believe you can avoid ISP issues if you send out only handful of emails at a time (less than 100).
excellent plug-in indead , if you dont send more then 500 emails at the time (within 10min at my ISP) then no alarm bells are running.
Not really working for me. The comments export function works fine, but the users export function creates a blank file. Tried it on two blogs, with the same results. (Using wp 2.3.3)
Ignore that comment. It wasn't blank, but the spreadsheet was showing nothing. I changed the file extension to .txt, right-clicked and told the file to open with excel, and it opened fine that way. strange, but it worked.
Ha, Donna, right when I was going to try and find an answer the email for your second comment came in :) I'll update the plugin soon to make sure it exports something Excel can pick up a bit easier.
Does it work? Did anyone try this?
Yes it works. I have tried.
It works. Thanks.
it did not show the tab in my site, even though I installed and activated it...
It works for me. For people who get a blank spreadsheet, make sure you have selected the correct delimiter character. Users-to-csv uses semicolon delimiters by default, so if the spreadsheet is expecting to see commas (by default) the result will be a blank sheet.
For the developer: I am also using the Cimy Extra User Fields plugin and users-to-csv is not capturing the extra fields because they are stored in a separate table. Any possibility to enhance users-to-csv to extract extra data from extra fields?