Importing WordPress users as members

- If you've been following along with me,…step-by-step through the course so far,…I have led you into a bit of a conundrum.…You see, when we use the simple WordPress…membership's plugin to restrict access…to certain content to only members,…we are truly restricting that content to only members.…Now, watch what happens.…I'm currently logged in as the administrator in my site,…that's a WordPress user account,…and you'll remember that I set the access level…for this Submit an Event Listing page…to only certain members.…

If I now go and watch that page,…I can't access the page, even though I am an administrator.…That's because the WordPress user management…and the membership management are two different things,…so, if I want to be able to access the same pages…that members can, when I log in,…I first have to make my WordPress user…into a regular member of the site as well.…Like I said, these are two separate systems.…Fortunately, like with most things in WordPress,…there's a plugin that solves our problem.…

It's called Simple Membership WP user Import,…