WordPress MU

Is there a way to kind of crossgrade from standard wordpress to wordpressmu without having to delete all the files on the server. I ask because I have a blog that has about 108 posts on it and about 8 pages and I really don't want to have to rebuild all that from scratch. Any and all help is appreciated.

the standard wordpress has an importer and exporter now.

- Export out the database via Dashboard -> Manage -> Export. Save the resulting *.xml file to your desktop.

- You'll need to grab the uploaded filed as well if you've upload any image files to your old blog.

- Delete the old install and replace it with the MU files. Install and all that.

- Create a new blog and import your old blog. Dashboard -> Manage -> import.

You're going to lose the URLs of your old blog as Mu is designed to sit in the root of the domain. You can add in the old blog as blog #1 but 1) Mu is pretty much designed for blog #1 to be the admin blog and 2) it puts blog #1 into a special /blog subdirectory so not to conflict with anything.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

so are you saying that if I had for example http://erratum5.net/shows/geekchat, it wouldn't work anymore? How so, and what would I have to do to bring it back?

Ideally Mu is set up to use subdomains, so your urls would something like geekchat.erratum5.net. If you really think people will have a hard time finding your "new" location you could create a redirect for it in your .htaccess.

If you're getting spidered quickly enough, it should matter to teh search engines and you can always work up a redirect. Just don't ask me for it. i never get them right. :)

There is a redirect plugin, FWIW.