Import fails if no email address

s2Member Pro: Import function

Some of our current members do not have, or have not given us, email addresses, yet they may want to log in to the site through a third party terminal. So I want to add them to our s2member database, but the empty email field generates an error message and that record is not imported.

Does anyone know how to disable the requirement for the email address at least temporarily?

TIA.

I am also looking for a way to import users without email addresses.

I believe the e-mail address is a requirement of WordPress itself. So you have to have some sort of valid e-mail in order for wordpress to work correctly.

My suggestion is to add a “fake” email for anyone who doesn’t have one in your list. You can do this fairly easily in excel with an if function.

I would do for any email that is blank, just enter an progressively increasing email like “fake_email_1@yoursite.com”.

That way everyone would have an email in the system but they wouldn’t have to update it unless they wanted to.

Hope that helps,

Dave

Wordpress does not require an email:
Codex wp_create_user

This appears to be an artificial restriction of the s2 import.