From WP to WPMU

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I did my first Wordpress MU installation yesterday and here is a couple of notes on my experience so far, including some tips.

Wordpress

My usual installation procedure when I set up wordpress for the first time.

  1. Upload WP to the server
  2. Run the installation
  3. Delete all plugins except for Akismet
  4. Delete all themes
  5. Upload BAREHTML5 (I’ll get back to you later today about what that is)
  6. Create a new admin user
  7. Log out with admin, log in with my new user and delete admin user
  8. Set up Akismet
  9. Install WP Security Scan plugin from the plugins menu
  10. If WP Security Scan produce any errors, fix them
  11. Adjust all the admin setting according to what your theme will do
  12. Code the theme
Wordpress MU

I did the same as with WP when I installed WP MU for the first time. All the same steps except from step 3 and 4. As I soon figured out that would be a time consuming error as I would have to start all over. Setting admin rights under the User tabs isn’t enough to create a new “Super user” for WP MU.

After some messing around in the admin tool and a reinstallation, my WP MU procedure is the following.

  1. Upload WP MU to the server
  2. Run the installation
  3. Create the new user
  4. Go into the option settings under the Site admin menu
  5. Add the new user to the Site Admins – Administration options
  6. Log out with the admin user, log in with the created user, delete the admin user.
  7. Upload BAREHTML5 to the themes folder
  8. Code

More information on what I will use WPMU for soon™.

Switch from WP to WPMU
  1. Create a temporary installation for your “old” blog. Move all content on to the temporary blog and choose to import all content (images, videoes, etc).
  2. Install WPMU in the base of your site (the steps above) and create a new blog.
  3. Swap to the new blog under the site admin settings
  4. Set up the blog to your old blog URL.
  5. Install your theme and activate it for your blog
  6. Import the content from your temporary blog
  7. Check if everything works, if it does delete your temp blog. You are now good to go.

Where this even remotely useful? Please comment with your WP to WPMU experience.