WordPress Add New Users Plugin

Frustrated by adding new users to sites one-by-one using Add New?

We were! Which is why we created the Add New Users plugin.

This really handy tool quickly bulk creates and adds new users, in batches of 15, as collaborators or contributors to sites.

And it has been so popular on WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress — we’ve now made it single install WordPress compatible.

Simply drop it into plugins and once activated you’ll see a nice new option in your ‘Users’ menu giving you the option to ‘Add New Users’.

Add New Menu item

Creating and adding new users to a site is now as simple as enter the username, an email address, a password (if you wish) and select the level of access to grant to the user.

All new users will receive an email containing the new username, password and login link.

And of course, it uses nice simple forms, so it can be easily used by anyone!

Add New Users interface

And for those situations where you want to add existing users in batches of up to 15 users — use Add Existing Users plugin!

Of course, if you do want your new users to have their own site we have a tool for that too – the blog and user creator (or batch create) – but this particular plugin does the job for just users on their own.

Enjoy!

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive
WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

To install:

1. Download the plugin file
2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
3. Upload /add-new-users/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
4. Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:

For WordPress Multisite installs – visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.
On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

That’s it! No configuration necessary!

To use:

A new menu item called Add New Users should appear under the Users navigation menu. It is designed for quickly creating and adding new users to a site in batches of up to 15 users.

Please note:

The users are immediately added to the site and automatically listed as users on the Users page.
They can only access features in the site’s administration panel based on the role they’ve been assigned
Spam filters, especially strict ones for institutional email addresses, often block the emails that the login details. If unsure
use free webmail accounts such as gmail, hotmail that don’t block these invitation emails.
Use only lowercase letters and numbers, with no spaces, in the username
The username is what they use to sign into the dashboard and is displayed on posts and comments they write. You can’t change a username, however you can change what name is displayed.
It won’t allow you to create several usernames with the same email address because the system resets password based on email address. But you can trick it using the gmail+ method

To add the new users, blog administrators simply enter:

The username they would like to give them
Their email address
A password for the user (if they want otherwise a random password will be automatically generated)
Assign their role – you can find out more about different levels of access here.

Add new users using Add New Users