Multisite Dev and Swap

  • Resolved cogdog

    (@cogdog)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    I’m doing a redesign for a non-profit organization, lets call them nicepeople.org, and we envision future needs that would benefit from running as multi-site.

    The current site is running at nicepeople.org and know how to make it multisite. I would hope to prototype the new site for them at say beta.nicepeople.org maybe even fleshing it out with the current site content. Ultimately, I would like to turn that site live at nicepeople.org and maybe put the existing site at archive.nicepeople.org

    As far as using a site export, am I better off doing that before converting it to multisite?

    Are there clean ways of moving a sub-site to main, and vice versa? Or I could apply the new theme for beta.nicepeople.org at nicepeople.org and maybe have to redo some pages. menus.

    I know there are structural differences between main and sub sites but am not sure about what I might be missing in figuring out how to move them. I have gleaned some ideas from http://halfelf.org/2013/breaking-up-multisite/

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Are there clean ways of moving a sub-site to main, and vice versa?

    Kind of…. I talk about it in https://store.halfelf.org/ebooks/wordpress-multisite-110/ and it totally does work, but you’ll still have to edit all the posts for internal links (and that’s been hit or miss for some people).

    The real question here is that, in the end, will nicepeople.org BE a multisite for any reason other than development? I mean, do you plan to have multiple sites for real use later on?

    If not, then don’t do it with Multisite. Make a separate stand alone, do the work there, and then swap ’em out.

    Thread Starter cogdog

    (@cogdog)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Mika (I just bought the 101 and will likely get the 110 version, great resource).

    Yes, we have other reasons for multisite. There are plans to create subsites for neighborhood projects which may share a common template, but need different sites; possibility of staff and community individual blogs, and a parallel major site that will need a completely different theme and functionality (I know how to do this all thematically / custom post type wise and see how that might go)

    I see the advantages of a single WP / plugins for updating, and being able to give common logins to users who may author on multiple sites.

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