Tutorial - Advanced Multisite Management

[jonathanbossenger]

Topic Description

Looking at some advanced multisite topics, like exporting a sub-site to a single site install, or converting a multisite back to a single site install.

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[jonathanbossenger]

Note to self, site statues are boolean columns in the blogs table. Edit tutorial accordingly.

[jonathanbossenger]

Script: https://github.com/jonathanbossenger/wp-content/blob/main/tutorials/wordpress-roles-capabilities-02-custom-post-types.md

[jonathanbossenger]

Video for review.

advanced-multisite-management.mp4

[quitevisible]

@jonathanbossenger is this the right video? The video was on a CPT plugin but title for this issue says “Advanced Multisite Management”. The video was still pretty good, I was just waiting to see how it related to multisite :)

[jonathanbossenger]

Whoops! Thanks for picking this up @quitevisible, it should be the right video now.

[quitevisible]

Ok cool, @jonathanbossenger - yes that video makes more sense! Here's thoughts...

• I like the TOC laid out at the beginning of the video. It let's me know what to expect.
• On setting a subsite to Spam, I know you mentioned no additional hooks are fired, but one question might then be, "what exactly does that do?". In other words, why not just delete or archive the subsite?
• The progressing sections on converting sub/multi/single sites was well done.

Great tutorial!

[jonathanbossenger]

@quitevisible thanks for the feedback and review.

On setting a subsite to Spam, I know you mentioned no additional hooks are fired, but one question might then be, "what exactly does that do?". In other words, why not just delete or archive the subsite?

Honestly, that was my question as well, it's literally just a 0 or 1 change in the database for that field, and nothing else happens.

I assume the idea is that developers could then build their own functionality depending on the status, but that's based on the use case, and not specific to core WordPress, which is why I didn't go deeper.

[jonathanbossenger]

Tutorial published https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/advanced-multisite-management/