Emerson Maningo
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Well, if you would like to restore several sites at once, you can, but we don’t recommend it. If you need to, you can start with a few sites at a time, say 5 (as some clients have done and it worked).
But if you don’t get errors with 5 sites at a time, you can always increase to 10 sites at a time, assuming your target server has the resources (CPU, memory, and disk space) to handle it. If you got a runtime error on a specific site, it is because the database was locked by another site (that was running in parallel import). You can always re-import this site after all sites are done. It should work.
You don’t need a premium version to do this if you are only restoring multisite subsites. But if you restore a main site of a multisite or use any of the PRO features listed on this page, then you need to upgrade to the PRO plan. You also need to use the PRO version if you intend to create a blank subsite with a specific target ID (that matches your package blog ID). You can see more details in this tutorial.
If you are interested, drop us a message on our official website with any further questions. I’ll mark this ticket resolved here since ww.wp.xz.cn forum policy does not allow discussions regarding paid plugin features. Thank you!
Thank you for the interest in using Prime Mover plugin! Regarding your question – sorry but the plugin does not support parallel or simultaneous import. You can refer to this documentation for details.
The reason is that parallel imports can cause unexpected race conditions during import, resulting in import issues. While you can do this with the plugin, we don’t recommend doing simultaneous import. This applies to both the free and pro versions.
Thank you again. If you have questions about our PRO version, please visit our official website to contact us (link added previously).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Prime Mover - Migrate WordPress Website & Backups] Backup a multisiteHi JK! That’s right, when you use the free version, you must install it in your main site’s network plugins (Network Admin -> Plugins) and activate it there. Once the free version is network-activated, you can start backing up as many subsites as possible. You can see the backup functionality in Network admin -> Sites. But if you want to back up the main site, you need to upgrade to the PRO version. Thanks again for your interest in the plugin. Let me know if you need any clarification.
- This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Emerson Maningo. Reason: typo
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Prime Mover - Migrate WordPress Website & Backups] Backup a multisiteHello JK! Thank you for your interest in using the Prime Mover plugin! Regarding the answers to your questions, please check out below:
- Question 1.) I can use the free version. Right?
Yes, please note that in the free version, you can manually back up as many multisite subsites as you like, on demand (any time you need it). The free version does not have a trigger for automatic backups – you can only do so manually. But it won’t have a limit on the number of subsites or the package size (backup and restoration).
However, the main site requires a PRO license. The PRO license allows you to backup and restore the main site, as well as use the automatic/scheduled backup feature (available to all sites) to run it on schedule (instead of triggering it manually).
- Question 2.) Do I install only on the main site, then back up the entire multisite?
No, the Prime Mover plugin needs to be installed on network plugins and network-activated. Once network-activated, you can now back up individual sub-sites and main sites (PRO). However, as of the latest version, it cannot yet back up the entire multisite as one package. The primary reason is that this plugin is designed to split and back up individual sites rather than the whole. However, we are already adding this feature for the future, although there is no definite timeline yet for its release.
- Question 3.) If so, can I then restore selected subsites or the main site independently?
Yes, the plugin can be used to back up and restore selected subsites independently (including the main site in the PRO feature). If you restore a subsite, it won’t affect other sites in the network, except, of course, for its plugins and themes, which are shared by all sites by design.
- Question 4.) Or, do I have to install the plugin on each of the sites, main and sub? If so, I assume I can back up each independently and restore each independently.
The plugin can only be network-activated. So you need to network-activate this plugin. Once the network is activated, it is available for use across all sites in the multisite network.
- Question 5.) Also, I see discussions here about why you do not include inactive plugins in the backups, at least for migration. Will backups include the entire site’s assets, including inactive plugins, so that a restore will recreate the site completely?
Yes, that’s correct – the backup does not include inactive plugins/themes to save package size, but this request is already on our to-do list (there is still no definite timeline for this feature yet).
The backup includes the site database, media files for that site, activated plugins and themes, and finally, the site’s users. You can find more details in this FAQ.
Since some of your questions touched on the PRO aspects of the plugin, you can send us additional questions via our official contact page (since answering PRO-related questions/features isn’t allowed on the WordPress free forum). I’m marking this ticket as resolved.
Cheers,
Emerson
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Prime Mover - Migrate WordPress Website & Backups] Thank youThat’s great to hear! Glad our plugin helped with your migration projects. Thank you again for using and rating the plugin! Cheers.
Thank you Igor for using the Prime Mover plugin! We are happy to hear that you find it stable for use on your sites. And thank you for leaving a five-star rating. Cheers!
Hi Yavuzyayla,
Thanks for using Prime Mover! What’s the runtime error? Can you please send the runtime error log details via our official contact form.Usually at user import step – the primary cause of runtime error is
illegal offset type– if you are getting similar errors like this and you are using PHP 8.0 – try downgrading to PHP 7.4 and see if it helps.If you already tried the workaround and you still have issues – can you provide us a link to download the
WPRIMEpackage (you can share in Gdrive) – we will try to check if the runtime error is reproducible in our test server.Please send the link via our contact form. This way we will know if the error is server or package-related. Thanks!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Creativeily] Compatible slider pluginI found a working one: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/image-slider-slideshow/
I’m closing this ticket because I don’t need any further help. But it would be good to verify this with other slider plugin compatibility. Thanks.@mhurwicz Regarding your latest issue posted here: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/invalid-site-footprint-while-exporting/#post-11854942
I assume you have gateway timeout errors while importing/uploading.
I suggest this fix:- Restart your PHP / Apache. This will stop any ongoing process running so it will be back to normal.
- If target uploads is outdated and no longer used, you can delete /wp-content/uploads/ it to save space (so it will be replaced with target site)
- If you want to upload a very big file (> 1GB),please add this to your wp-config.php at the target site (where the import will be done):
define('PRIME_MOVER_UPLOAD_REFRESH_INTERVAL', 5000);This will send a fewer upload requests to your server to avoid timeouts and overloading it causing gateway errors.
- Please use beta 1.0.4. You can download it here. when restoring the site.
Yesterday I tested >1GB on an upload connection, the same as yours. It was able to install using version 1.0.4 beta using that wp-config.php constant added. Can you please try it and see if it works for you?
Please let me know how it goes. If you have a new unrelated issue, please create a separate ticket. Thank you!
We already have an ongoing ticket here: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/requesting-beta-of-1-0-4-to-cure-import-stall/
So let’s continue the discussion there. I’ll post an update there right now.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Move All Articles to /Blog directoryWell if you are sure the posts have been moved correctly and accessible at the new location. You simply need to 301 redirect the old post URLs to the new location (
/blog/). This way, your visitors will be redirected to the new URL.Please read this guide on doing 301 redirects: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-creating-redirects-in-wordpress/
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Move All Articles to /Blog directoryI have not tested this but I think this should work in theory:
- Export all posts in root domain in Tools -> Export
- Install and activate WordPress Importer in your
/blog/subdirectory - Import all posts to this subdirectory using the importer
- Clean up (if needed)
- Done.
The above assumes you only want to move posts and not the entire root domain. I suggest to try the above steps in a dev site and not in a production site (for testing purposes).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Hiding Post Category ButtonYour custom CSS needs to override the theme style.css. You can try again the custom CSS below and add
!importantdesignation to the style:.main-content .more-link { display: none !important; }I added important to the CSS to mean that it will rule over the style.css. But still the best way of doing this is inside a custom style.css inside your child theme. I recommend you should learn doing that and its pretty helpful to you in the long term.
If that still doesn’t work, I could no longer think of other solutions. Maybe other volunteers here will assist. Thanks.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Hiding Post Category ButtonYou can hide it in different ways. It depends on what is given.
- If your theme has an option or setting to hide , you can simply turn it off. I see that you are using a premium theme, so its better if you check that this setting exist.
- Or create a child theme out of the parent theme and then use the child theme to customize and remove the more link markup. You can do this by overriding the parent template that outputs it: https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes
- Lastly if you don’t want to create child theme. Easiest is to hide via custom CSS in customizer:
.main-content .more-link { display: none; }
Reference: https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
Feel free to tweak the CSS selector to target correct element.Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: 404 Error when i try and visit new site dashboardActually when I do a server header status check on that subdomain I get a request failed error. It’s not returning 404 but a generic server error.
This usually means something is wrong with your server or domain configuration.
So based on this, below are few suggestions:
- Review your .htaccess to see if there are some missing lines or wrong syntax. WordPress does provide a standard .htaccess syntax during multisite installation. Make sure you copy and paste this as exactly what is suggested.
- Double check if the site exist on multisite network admin. When the site, exist its listed on Sites -> All sites.
- Review the site settings, check for wrong site URL ,etc. You can view this in the Edit site settings in network admin.
- This maybe rare, but some hosts don’t allow multisite configuration. If all things fail, try contacting your host regarding this.
- Review if you have correctly created the wildcard subdomain. There should be an A record for *.yourdomain.com created and pointed to the server IP address (it could coincide with the IP address of your main domain. Tutorial: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9191/29/how-to-create-a-wildcard-subdomain-in-cpanel