Uploading/Deploying a Multi Site Install

You should be able to move WordPress multi-site the same way you would any other WordPress site. Assuming your development environment is similar to production then yes.

Moving a WPMU isn’t hard but can be tricky. The Codex has pretty good documentation on how to do this.

If you try with the command line and run into trouble with a fast approaching deadline you can always just brute force it as follows:

  1. Move the main site
  2. Turn that site into a network
  3. Create a new site for each site in the network
  4. Import site content
  5. Tweak themes, plugins, settings
  6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each site on the network

done

Going brute force is very, very tedious but I have done it several times and it does work. Only advisable for sites with fewer than 20 sites.

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