Migrating old standalone WP blog into my Multisite network

  • anthonyjkenn

    (@anthonyjkenn)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    OK….here’s what I want to do:

    I have a standalone WordPress blog that I want to copy and migrate into my Multisite network.

    The problem is, I can’t use the Export/Import function because the standalone blog has large database files (nearly 130 MB), and the Import function can only handle 50 MB at a time.

    Also…I don’t want to migrate all of the database tables from the old blog; just the posts, comments, and any associated meta files/tables.

    In addition, since the new blog is located in a Multisite network, I want to make sure that the appropriate tables are appended and updated without hurting any data that I may already have.

    For the record, the standalone blog is under the directory /SDChronBlog2dot5 with the database “ajk6319_wp2dot5”. The blog that I have created for the archiving in my network is in the /RGClubNetwork/wp-content/blogs.dir/4/ directory with the database “ajk6319_wrpd2” with the prefix table ID of “wp_4_[table]”

    Both blogs are also cached using WP SuperCache, if that makes any differnce.

    Thanks in advance fo your help.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 3 months ago

    The problem is, I can’t use the Export/Import function because the standalone blog has large database files (nearly 130 MB), and the Import function can only handle 50 MB at a time.

    The Import/Export tool can be segmented to export only certain items.

    So let’s say you have 10,000 posts, and 500 are in each category. You can export by category 🙂

    That should handle your large DB.

    (PS: Import/Export in WP only does your posts/pages/comments and associated data)

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