How do I transfer user passwords from one WordPress site to another?
Yes and no wp_salt is the function you’re thinking of: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.8/src/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L1988 Your theory should be correct, copying the passwords over via SQL, and making sure all the salts are the same, then clearing cookies and trying to login, should do the trick. However, if we look at the code in the function, there are filters … Read more