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WPMU 2.3 blog + tags + categories -> WP 2.6x? (9 posts)

  1. softlord
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    I'm attempting to move a few of our blogs from a WPMU installation to separate Wordpress installs.

    Is there an easy way to do this? Looking at the tables, it looks like theres a blog number concatenated into the table name wp_1_options, etc. Is it safe to export using phpmyadmin and replace wp_1_ with wp_?

    Using Manage -> export kludges the tag names when imported into WP so they're purely numeric.

    Thanks for any help you can offer.

  2. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 16 years ago #

    "Is it safe to export using phpmyadmin and replace wp_1_ with wp_? "

    Yep.

  3. softlord
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Are there any other tables that i need to keep other than the wp_1_ ones? seems like there may be some global ones that i'd need to move over?

  4. jamescollins
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    I haven't actually tried doing this myself, but there are some global tables such as wp_users and wp_usermeta that you will probably need to copy the relevant user accounts from.

  5. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Yep. Or go into the single WP accounts and create the users you need.

    But the db way will probably be better.

  6. softlord
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Andrea - So, all the wp_1_* as well as:

    # wp_signups
    # wp_site
    # wp_sitecategories
    # wp_sitemeta
    # wp_usermeta
    # wp_users

    then rename wp_1_* to wp_* and import into new database?

  7. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 16 years ago #

    that sounds right.

    Note: I've never moved WPMU to WP before. :D Just the other way.

  8. jamescollins
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    I'm pretty sure WordPress will need all the wp_1_* tables (renamed to wp_*), plus wp_users and wp_usermeta.

    Also, you probably won't need all the user accounts in wp_users (and associated wp_usermeta records), just the ones associated with the blog that you are moving.

    The other wp_* tables shouldn't be required by normal WP.

  9. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Doh, Redundancy department here.

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