Completely Uninstall Multisite Network

  • jpearcy

    (@jpearcy)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    I followed the instructions to turn my single openlitespeed single site wordpress into a multisite network.

    How do I completely remove the network option (not disable) so I can try again from scratch? When I go through the steps to remove and repeat the install I am told a previous network setup exists and all the same problems do as well.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by jpearcy.
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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    Ideally, you would have made a complete backup before starting. Then you could simply restore from the backup. There are a number of things you need to manually do to undo a conversion to multisite. Delete the network rewrite rules in .htaccess. This will put your site into plain permalinks mode. You’ll need to re-specify your desired permalink settings once single site is restored.

    Remove all the multisite related defines in wp-config.php. Using the phpMyAdmin app, drop all multisite specific tables. The link lists users and usermeta tables as being multisite. Do not drop any user tables. Also drop numbered site specific tables. Do not drop un-numbered tables.

    I think that’s everything, but I’ve not done this in a good long while.

    Thread Starter jpearcy

    (@jpearcy)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    I must have been following bad or outdated instructions. I didn’t remove the multisite network installation ended up getting it to work by manually adding the following:

    Manually add to wp-config.php
    define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true );

    Thank you to those who responded.

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