Moving to Native Domain mapping

  • swcomm

    (@swcomm)


    2 years, 8 months ago

    I have a 10 year old multisite installation using the MU Domain Mapping plugin. I’d like to get rid of this plugin and use the WP native domain mapping feature but am somewhat confused as to whether this is even possible. Plenty of instructions on setting up a new multisite with native mapping, but not much/conflicting information on converting an existing multisite to native mapping. Has anyone had success with this method or have any other recommendations?

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/how-to-remove-this-plugin-for-wp-4-5/

    This MU installation is using current WP, and it’s not a subdomain install. I have newer multisite installs and found setting those up with native mapping to be a breeze. Thanks in advance.

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  • Kevin McClellan

    (@crazywpgeek)

    2 years, 8 months ago

    @swcomm I would suggest taking a full backup, then disabling the plugin you are using for the domain mapping. At that point, your sites will likely revert to their default site URL temporarily.

    I don’t remember exactly how the plugin method worked but if these domains are setup as aliases on the hosting and DNS is correct, then you should be able to set this up rather quickly if there are not too many sites.

    If you have a lot of sites then i would recommend using a compatible maintenance mode plugin that works on multisite until you have been able to make the changes to all the network sites on that installation.

    I have not done this myself but I would imagine this shouldn’t be too complex since the old plugin would be where the settings are currently. So it basically would undo those settings and then using the native built in method would simply add the domain back.

    A good backup would for sure be necessary prior to doing these kind of changes as there is no way to tell with older plugins if there might be any problems.

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