If your site already runs the WP Activity Log plugin, it may have months of records of members opening pages. Member Activity can import that history once, so every member gets a real pick up where you left off list on day one, instead of starting empty.
Where to find it:
Open AiX Search, then Member Activity. An Import Your Existing History section appears under the six numbers, but only while WP Activity Log's tables exist on your site. If your site never used it, the section is not shown and there is nothing to do.
What it imports:
The page views WP Activity Log recorded for signed in users: who, which page, and when. Each view is added to that member's history and to the daily totals, just as if Member Activity had recorded it. Views of pages that are not in your search index are skipped.
Do it in this order:
- Choose your Content Sources and click Rebuild Index on the Dashboard first. The import needs your index to know which pages count.
- Click Dry Run, Nothing Is Written. It scans the old log and tells you what would be imported, and writes nothing.
- Click Import Now.
- Watch the progress bar until the screen says the import is complete.
How it keeps your data safe:
- The old log is only ever read, never changed
- It runs in batches of 2,000 records, with a progress bar
- If it is interrupted, for example by closing the tab, click Import Now again and it carries on from where it stopped
- It only imports views from before Member Activity started recording on your site, so nothing is counted twice
- A finished import cannot run again over the same records
When the import is complete, the section says Import complete and live tracking carries on from there.
Import before you delete the old plugin:
WP Activity Log can remove its data when it is deleted. Run the import first, then deactivate and delete the old plugin whenever you like.
If you see a message:
- Your search index is empty: choose your Content Sources and click Rebuild Index on the Dashboard, then come back and import
- Member Activity tables are not ready yet: open the Member Activity tab once, then try again
A real example:
A cooking club that had run WP Activity Log for a year switched on PRO. After rebuilding its index, the owner clicked Dry Run, Nothing Is Written to see the size of the job, then Import Now. A few minutes later, every member's Pick up where you left off list showed the recipes they had read over the past year.
Tips:
- The demo site in these guides never used WP Activity Log, so its Member Activity tab shows no import section. That is what you will see too if there is nothing to import.
- See Member Activity: What Your Members Read for what happens after the import.