I’m trying to find a way to migrate a standalone WP site into a multisite setup.
Exporting, pages, posts etc work fine. Even those pages built in the page builder.
Is there a method to export the theme headers, footers, etc and then import them into the new site.
I tried the json export/import but that was really just for the Theme Options.
Any thoughts on how to migrate the rest of the theme guts?
Hello @wbgTHEMECO,
Thanks for writing in!
Normally, moving a site to a multi site setup, you do these steps:
If you are using Pro theme, this will not totally work. The Pro > Validation > Theme Options will help you export/import the Pro theme settings to your new site in a multisite setup. For the headers and footers, the Template Manager can help. In your single site, go to the Template Manager and download all your headers and footers. In the network site, you will have to import the headers and footers and then recreate the headers and footers using the imported headers and footers from the single site.
For the pages created in Pro Editor, you will have to edit each pages and save it as a template. Go to the Template Manager and then download all those page templates. In your network site, you can import the page template and then rebuild the pages. This method is not the fastest. I can assure you though that this method will ensure that you’ll have the same contents and settings.
If you are more familiar and comfortable with database, you can do it manually.
Please check out this detailed instruction here:
Hope this helps.
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