Dear Support, I need to add some (thousands) of fake users in order to manage certain features available in my theme's backend, but such users would appear as Forum members, whereas I need them only for admin purposes.
Is there a way to tell WpForo (or Wordpress) not to include them as members? Maybe a column heading in my .csv import file?
You can create separate usergroup for these members and hide them form members list using the "Display on Members List" option.
Just navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Usergroups admin page, edit the Usergroup, that you need to hide from Members list (for example "Dummy Members"), disable the "Display on Members List" option.
thank you very much... I knew that WpForo was offering an easy solution to that? 😍
...I have a dilemma, though:
if I assign the role needed to these dummy users (i.e. "Subscriber") and if they are not appearing in the Forum, then also real subscribed users will not appear in the Forum, which is not what I want.
So, is there a role that acts as "registered" but treats them as "dummy" ?
You can create another usergroup called for example "dummy". Move those users to the dummy usergroup.
Doc for wpForo Usergroups: https://wpforo.com/docs/root/members/usergroups-and-permissions/
This FAQ should be also helpful for you: https://wpforo.com/community/faq/wordpress-user-roles-wpforo-usergroups-and-forum-accesses/
ok, so you are suggesting to manually move users to the Dummy group, and that's fine. But my doubt is about what role I should give to the Dummy group. I cannot use "Subscribers" because it's the default WP, I cannot use "business-owners/vendors" either because they are the theme's default... would "author" or "editor" or "web designer" or something else work? I need a role that is not interpreted by WP to be supposed to do something.
You can create a new user role for those members as well. Helpful article: https://wedevs.com/98266/add-custom-user-roles-wordpress/