Moving 1 site from a multisite to a NEW multisite / keeping users

  • grantium

    (@grantium)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    The scenario:
    at my university our student newspaper was one of several WordPress sites deployed using a multisite.

    We have thousands of articles by hundreds of authors.

    I have the database tables (which are all wp_36_posts, etc) except I doubt I have the users table since it was a multisite.

    How can I import the tables and keep some semblance of distinction between the authors? I don’t care if I have to enter in all the authors by hand, that could just be life, but I don’t want ot lose that the authors exist in the first place.

    Can someone please help me out and tell me where to start? I’ve been searching how to do this for several days now.

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  • Thread Starter grantium

    (@grantium)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Okay, maybe simpler question.

    I’m just going to upload a set of dummy authors and fix it later.

    But! If I move the files over to the appropriate directory, can I just add all the wp_36 tables and rename them to the WordPress tables? Will that work to make it the default site?

    Please. Please. 🙂

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Can’t you export the posts and import them into the new multisite?

    You can’t just copy the tables over, since wp_36… belongs to another site. You MIGHT be able to make a new site, and then replace those tables with your stored ones, but all the user data will be mangled.

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