Title: Multisite to Polylang migration
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Multisite to Polylang migration

 *  [stratboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stratboy/)
 * (@stratboy)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-to-polylang-migration/)
 * Hi, on some old sites I used to use the native multisite feature to build multilanguage
   websites and allow clients to indipendentely manage each language. Then, some
   years ago, I switched to the fabulous Polylang.
 * Now for some of the ‘multisite’ websites I would need to switch to polylang. 
   The problem is: how to retain all (hundreds) of the posts of all the languages(
   sites of the fake ‘network’) and have them assigned to the right language in 
   polylang?
 * What woul be the best strategy in your opinion?
 * Thank you
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-to-polylang-migration/#post-7237860)
 * Hi!
 * I am not aware of anyone having done this in a fully automated way.
 * What you could try, using the WP builtin export tool ( please test before doing
   this on a production site ):
 * For each language:
    * export the site from your multisite install * in new Polylang
   site, change the default language to the language you want to import * import
   your content * In settings->languages, assign the default language to the content
   having no language (link in notice above the languages list table).
 * This may allow you to keep the language information. Unfortunately, I have no
   way to offer to keep the translations links (for this, you would need to write
   a fully automated migration plugin).
 *  Thread Starter [stratboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stratboy/)
 * (@stratboy)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-to-polylang-migration/#post-7237863)
 * Ok thank you, your suggestions already help a little.
 * Regards

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-to-polylang-migration/#post-7237863)
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