Title: Installing WP sub instance via WP Admin
Last modified: May 22, 2018

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# Installing WP sub instance via WP Admin

 *  Resolved [mjk84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjk84/)
 * (@mjk84)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wp-sub-instance-via-wp-admin/)
 * Hi WordPressers,
 * I’m looking to the collective knowledge to see if anyone knows if it’s possible
   to import a WordPress site to an existing site via the WP admin panel rather 
   than the hosting providers panel?
 * I have a secondary site on a local machine i want to add, but can’t access the
   hosting providers
 * So I have [http://www.sitename.com](http://www.sitename.com) but want a secondary
   WP instance at [http://www.sitename.com/secondsite](http://www.sitename.com/secondsite)

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 *  [Carme Mias](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carmemias/)
 * (@carmemias)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wp-sub-instance-via-wp-admin/#post-10308120)
 * Hi there,
 * Yes and no.
 * You can do that with a new installation of WordPress into [http://www.sitename.com/secondsite](http://www.sitename.com/secondsite)
   and then importing the data from your localhost.
 * You could also turn the current site into a multisite but I think your second
   site would have to be a subdomain (like [http://secondsite.sitename.com](http://secondsite.sitename.com))
   instead of a subfolder (like [http://www.sitename.com/secondsite](http://www.sitename.com/secondsite))
   because it would be a conversion to multisite rather than a fresh multisite install.
 * But, for both options you would need to have access to the hosting space and 
   database (via FTP and PHPMyAdmin, for example, or the Control Panel) in order
   to do the installation or conversion.
 *  Thread Starter [mjk84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjk84/)
 * (@mjk84)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wp-sub-instance-via-wp-admin/#post-10312643)
 * Hi Carme,
 * thank you for the response. I thought that may have been the case. Thanks for
   confirming. I run our local site on a subdomain of a global domain already so
   the second option would suit.
 * Back to the drawing board 🙂
 * Thanks again

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 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [sub-domain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-domain/)
 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [mjk84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjk84/)
 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wp-sub-instance-via-wp-admin/#post-10312643)
 * Status: resolved

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