I successfully have all new users added as Participants when they create a profile. However I have 17,000 previous users who all have the default ‘No Role for these Forums’. When I try to bulk update them under Tools/Forums ‘Remap all users to default forum roles’ I receive an error of ‘This page isn’t working’. Perhaps it is too big of a request for so many users? How else can I update all my users to Participant so that they can post topics and replies.
Thank you

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

If you have checked ‘Automatically give registered visitors the xx role…’

in

dashboard>settings>forums>

Then they will get that role when they next log in, so you shouldn’t need to take any action on existing users.

[@wpturk Participant 1 year, 9 months ago]

Updating the mysql user meta table via sql statement can be tricky since this info is stored serialised.
(Let me know if you need more info for this)

[@bgunning Participant 1 year, 9 months ago]

Thx for that info Robin! This can be marked resolved.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

🙂 glad you are fixed