Export/Import Data (feature request)

[aharonium]

I’m so incredibly grateful for Simple Local Avatar after the WP User Avatar debacle of April 2001. Thanks to the integrated migrate feature, I succeeded in moving all of my data over. But I’m still rather traumatized by the experience of possibly losing all of my user<->avatar associations (over 1,000 and growing on my site).

So, I’d really like some manual export data option in Simple Local Avatars. (Perhaps also a data import option?) I do use the plugin “Import and Export Users and Customers” (but I haven’t tested it in any migrate/restore scenario with the simple_user_avatar fields in the WP user_meta database table). I do make daily full database backups (via another plugin), but I can imagine some situations where a full restore is undesirable and one might want to restore from a manual export of the user<->avatar associations. (Strangely, any sort of author/user data is not, AFAIK, copied over in the (WXR, XML/RSS) export files that can be manually generated natively within Wordpress... but I digress.)

If adding this feature is undesirable, it would be good to explore more how to successfully do another manual export of the data and their restoration through a plugin like “Import and Export Users and Customers” (or any other means).

[faisal-alvi]

Just providing a link to where this was initially reported: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-avatar-data-feature-request/

[jeffpaul]

This is not a feature that I think we're likely to spend time to build, but if someone wants to propose a concise approach and contribute a related PR then I would get this through our team for review.