This article obviously needs expansion, but I'm not sure enough of the details to do that myself. I'd love to see a section on moving from a WP-MU host to your own WP installation, though. As an example, I signed up on Blogsome and now I'm moving to my own installation. Issues that come up are transferring entries, comments, and templates. I don't have access to the SQL database, so the instructions given in this article are essentially useless to me. I can probably manage to do it by hand, but some kind of automated process built into WP-MU would be incredibly handy for those who don't want to do the manual labor.

-Etoile 04:59, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I don't know how common this is, but we will take it under advisement. If you come up with the "how to" to make this happen, please read the codex guidelines on submissions and submit it to the Codex and we'll clean it up and add the information. I'm sure it would help others. Thanks! Lorelle 22:44, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

For the purpose of moving from WPMU to WP, it should probably be treated as any other blogging system (MT, b2evo, etc.) from which one might migrate, as it really is something entirely different.

--Error 07:15, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Same as Moving Within a Site?

As I was editing this, it occurred to me that this might or might not be the same technique for moving WordPress within a domain or site. This is valuable for those who set up test folders for WordPress and when they are suitably impressed with their work, they want to make it live and move it to the root directory. If they did enough work, they may have changed the links within the posts to images under their WordPress directory - so this might apply....I don't know, but it would help if we added notation on this for those who want to move within their own site.

Lorelle 22:44, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Moving within site

Unfortunately, moving from one server to another is a long, detailed process which is fraught with difficulty and prone to error. Moving within the same site is a simple two-step process which can be done in about 15 seconds. I'm thinking both should be documented, but separately.

--Error 07:12, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)