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1. d_random
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Here is situation that I have been trying to figure out:

   I have a primary site that I no longer want to be my primary site of my multisite. I want to make it a subdomain and make a subdomain I already have set up my primary site.

   I have tried this tutorial , but it just swapped the url for the primary and subdomain.

   How do I swap a primary site and a subdomain?

2. dgilmour
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Use export/import to swap the contents of the sites?

3. d_random
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I gotta swap the whole thing, plugins, etc.

4. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 8 months ago #

   You could try doing it in the DB. Change wp_options and wp_posts et etc to wp_x_* Then change wp_2_ to wp_ and THEN change wp_x_ to wp_2_

   But you have to be VERY careful to only change the tables required.

5. d_random
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Sorry for being dense Ipstenu, what do you mean wp_x_*?

6. dgilmour
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Each blog has a unique ID number.

   Go to Network Admin / Sites, hover your mouse over any blog's title and you'll see the ID number in your status bar on the end of the link URL. It will look like <site home>/wp-admin/network/site-info.php?id=1125, where in this case 1125 is the unique ID.

   The ID number is used to identify the set of database tables for each blog. They all have names like wp_1125_posts, wp_1125_comments etc.

   Ipstenu is suggesting you first rename the database tables for the home blog, which don't have an ID number, temporarily to something else, using the x.

7. d_random
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks dgilmour!

8. gerital
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks, that worked out!

   I also had to switch the wp-content/uploads directory with the blogs.dir/X/files directory and the references in the posts.

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