[Plugin: WordPress MU Domain Mapping] Migrating without import?

modesty
(@modesty)

13 years, 6 months ago

I have a number of exiting websites that I’d like to make memebers of a newly establishing network i.e. multisite. I was wondering is it really necessery to export each and every exiting site and than to import it into the network, if all of them are on the same server?

Tnx in advance.

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Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 6 months ago

If they’re not on the same MU install, then you can’t use MU plugins to manage them. You get how that works, right? 😀

Andrea Rennick
(@andrea_r)

13 years, 6 months ago

Yes it’s really necessary – so they are all in the same database so the one wordpress install knows about them.

Thread Starter modesty
(@modesty)

13 years, 6 months ago

Andrea, tnx for such a quick response… just one final question: is there something I should beware of in the process, linkwise or rather googlewise?

Andrea Rennick
(@andrea_r)

13 years, 6 months ago

If in the end they all still have the same URL, then there’s not really any worries.

Thread Starter modesty
(@modesty)

13 years, 5 months ago

Dear Andrea, unfortunately this is not working out… One of my sites has over 5000 articles and 30 active plugins… if I try to move it this way, all of the plugin data gets lost… Isn’t there a way to move the site and keep all of that data?

Tim Moore
(@tmoorewp)

13 years, 5 months ago

@ Modesty:

If you are familiar with MySQL, you can do database migrations. However, these can be tricky and you need to be careful doing them.

Thread Starter modesty
(@modesty)

13 years, 5 months ago

I know… I’m trying to figure out the right paths to stuff on the new site, and it’s killing me…

Andrea Rennick
(@andrea_r)

13 years, 5 months ago

http://bavatuesdays.com/importing-a-single-wp-blog-to-a-wpmu-installation/
http://sillybean.net/wordpress/migrating-single-wordpress-installations-into-multisite-networks/

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