What is the final step in moving a single WP to WP Network?

  • Hi. I am moving 3 single WP installations to a new WP Network that works on subdomains.
    All these 3 blogs, as well as the new Network are stored in the same hosting account.
    Each of the 3 old blogs is accessible through a subdomain.
    I have already set the MAIN domain in this hosting account to point to the new network installation (which I will call MASTER).

    MASTER (the Network installation) is right inside public_html (so public_html contains the wp-content,wp-admin,etc).

    The old blog1, blog2, blog3 are stored in the account like this:
    public_html/xyz/blog1
    public_html/xyz/blog2
    public_html/xyz/blog3

    in the new Network I created new blog-A, blog-B, blog-C, where I will move blog1, blog2, blog3.

    If this is not clear please let me know and I’ll try to make a graphical illustration of it.

    I started with blog 1, exported its xml, imported it into blog-A.
    Then copied its theme, plugins, adjusted settings, widgets, etc.
    Now, blog-A looks exactly like blog1, except in the sub-domain name: while blog1 has the original (current) domain of “blog1”, blog-A has the subdomain, lets call it blog-A.

    So what do I have to do next with blog 1, concerning the files, the subdomain, permalinks, forwarding and redirection (if needed) all that stuff?

    Thank you in advance

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  • Thread Starter iceq

    (@iceq)

    Hi Ipstenu, I am back ??
    I followed your advice, and things seem to be working fine ??

    But this very complicated process can’t go without issues ??

    After copying the uploads of the old blog to the network’s blogs.dir/X/files/ and doing a search and replace on the new blog’s DB changing the url of the images from the old url to the new, The images inside the posts show up fine.
    But no thumbnails appear for posts, like in the index of in the similar posts section, although I am using the exact same theme with same settings.
    Noticeably, the old blog contain 945 files in the library, but the new one only 58 I tried to “import attachments” when I imported the xml of all content, but after some time it gave me an error , perhaps because the content was too much.

    How can I fix these issues and re-associate the images with their posts?

    Thread Starter iceq

    (@iceq)

    Please see difference between the old and new:
    Old:
    https://personal.al-rasid.com/

    New:
    https://2personal.al-rasid.com/

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Since your header image shows – https://al-rasid.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files/2013/03/header-logo4.jpg – and it’s in the right place, I would guess it’s your theme. Does it happen to use TimThumb?

    Thread Starter iceq

    (@iceq)

    No, as you see, I had to change the url of the image in the theme’s header settings. The default url of the uploaded image is :
    https://2personalal-rasid.com/files/2013/03/header-logo4.jpg

    but it doesn’t show up at all
    So I had to use the actual url and force it into the theme’s settings to work:
    https://al-rasid.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files/2013/03/header-logo4.jpg

    The question is why?

    My theme does have thimthumb but it is disabled, and not recommended because my understanding is that timhtumb eats lots of cpu/memory, which is bad especially on shared hosting.

    Now you won’t see the image thumbnails in the new blog although I copied the images to its dir, and I am still stuck and unable to figure how to restore the images as thumbnails. What to do after moving the actual files ?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Try a different theme. Do the images show up?

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