Merging WordPress Installations

  • OscarGuy

    (@oscarguy)


    2 months, 4 weeks ago

    I have two questions.

    1) Is there a way to take two separate WordPress installations and merge them? I created a second installation because the challenges of creating subdomains within WordPress seemed more complex than I would be able to complete by myself.

    2) The two sites deal with similar subject matters so just pulling in all the posts, users, pages, and stuff, would probably suffice but I’d like to somehow preserve a little bit of their identities. Is there a way to design a format for specific posts related to specific subjects (say on the category level) so that it appears one way depending which category it is part of (some might share categories, so I’d want to be able to delineate that if possible, though probably without a lot of overlap. I assume I could create a landing “page” for the second domain that functions just like the other site so would have functionally two “main sites,” but I’m just wondering if what I want to do is possible in a single installation of WordPress.

    Any help figuring out if either of these are possible and the best way to go about them would be appreciated. I probably won’t undertake this exhaustive of a change until mid-to-late March (not the right time of the year for me to merge them) but starting to think about it in advance will help me plan for what I need to do it all.

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  • Moderator threadi

    (@threadi)

    2 months, 4 weeks ago

    If I understand correctly, you want to merge the content of two websites. I just want to mention this because it would also be possible to host both websites in a multisite installation, which would mean that they are “together” but still separate installations. If you are interested in learning more about multisite, see: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/

    To merge the content of the sites, you would need to import the content from one to the other. If it’s just posts and pages, you can do this using the import/export tools included in WordPress, see: https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/tools-import-and-export/

    Of course, you should definitely make a backup first. It may be worthwhile for you to run through the whole process in a test system first before you actually do it in the live system.

    If I understand correctly, you still want to be able to visually distinguish the content from each other. This is more a task for the theme you are using. It would be possible to assign a category to the posts on one page and change the design depending on the category assignment. You would need to ask the support team for the theme you are using whether and how this can be done.

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