Preselect matching authors in WordPress Importer to enhance usability

[tott]

To increase usability in WordPress imports, especially for imports with many users or imports that are rerun a preselection of authors would increase usability.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

patch still works at 11175.

no import file to test it with, though...

[tott]

current version of patch

[tott]

import file to create users

[tott]

import file with various posts assigned to users

[tott]

Attached a version of the patch against the current trunk.

To test on a fresh trunk install
1) apply patch ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/8455/import-usability-preselect.diff
2) import ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/8455/create_users.xml and make sure you let WordPress create the missing users
3) import ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/8455/user-assignment-test-data.xml and see if the user dropdowns are prefilled correctly.

[chrisscott]

Replying to tott:

Attached a version of the patch against the current trunk.

To test on a fresh trunk install
1) apply patch ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/8455/import-usability-preselect.diff

This patches OK against r13305

2) import ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/8455/create_users.xml and make sure you let WordPress create the missing users

When I do this, the users aren't created and the posts are all assigned to 'admin'. Verified I left the user dropdowns in the default state (- Select -). Did it twice for good measure and still don't get the users created.

3) import ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/8455/user-assignment-test-data.xml and see if the user dropdowns are prefilled correctly.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #8984

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #16148

[SergeyBiryukov]

#27580 was marked as a duplicate.

[chriscct7]

Closing as maybelater. Complete lack of interest on the feature on the ticket over the last 6 years. Feel free to reopen when more interest re-emerges (particularly if there's a patch)

[lkraav]

"displet-auto-select-authors-during-import" plugin has probably eased a lot of the pain here, even though for some reason the plugin is now gone from the directory.