Moving a Site from WordPress Multisite to Single Install

I was wondering how to move a website from a Wordpress Multisite to a self-hosted install. I kept digging into the internet and finally found the solution, so I decided to edit my post and share with yall.

Here is a Great article on how to do it : http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-a-site-from-wordpress-multisite-to-single-install/

The tricky thing is that you can import/export as with a regular wordpress site but you can not duplicate the database in order to duplicate the settings. So beside copying all the plugins and themes files. You have to manualy adjust all the settings to get the exact same settings as your old multisite.

I was wondering about what would happen to the old URL and foudn this great solution :

Redirecting From Subdomain to New Domain For subdomain installs, you need to use this code in the .htaccess file of your WordPress multisite.

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.example.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.net/$1 [L,R=301]

It works great : now, anybody typing the old URL "subdomain.example.com" is redirected to "www.example.net". It is important to set the exact same permalink structure on both sites.

Now I have a single install wordpress site and I don't think SEO will be affected that much because the content is the exact same. And the old URL redirect straight on to the new site (with the exact same content).