Importing Users into new WordPress site

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Solution

Use this plugin First Export Export Users to CSV

Then Import

Import Users from CSV

You can also do this by exporting mysql wp_users & wp_usersmeta table.

Also importing and exporting can be done with this single plugin

Problem

I am migrating an existing site to WordPress. the existing site has a membership of over 6000 and their passwords were encrypted using sha1 and saved to the database. How can I import them into WordPress keeping their same password?

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