Hi, thanks. There is no migrate feature, so I am not sure what you mean exactly, you must be doing something manually or with another plugin. The copy site feature copies one site into another, and the database tables of the one you copy are pasted (and edited too) into the site you are replacing. The number depends on which sites you choose and their id.

Thanks for your reply. When I create a new site the wp_xxx tables will be created where xxx is the next blog_id from the wp_blogs table. I was hoping there was a way for your plugin to have a hook where I could specify a number for the the blog_id instead?

There is no easy way to change the ID of a site and it is not recommended. I don’t think I have ever done it but there are probably some articles online that describe how to do it. You will have to google something like how to change the blog id of a site in multisite. Some results will be about changing the primary/main site id, which is a different thing. But overall there is no such feature in my plugin.

Hi. Thank you for purchasing. I can add a new option. I am not sure yet if this is the best option that you mentioned (all except the default roles), or maybe just give you a field to enter the role that you want to delete. Are all of your spam users the same role? Is it some role made by the plugin wp forum?

Hi Nik, yeah, they are all subscribers.

Maybe two variables? Delete everyone that’s a subscriber from subsite X? It doesn’t matter to me as I don’t use subscribers elsewhere. I’m just thinking that it might be useful to others.

I even tried to delete the subscriber role altogether using the User Role Editor plugin, but it wouldn’t let me.

OK, give me a couple of days, and I will comment here again when I am ready.

Ok, thanks a bunch!

No problem, send me an email at nikolay@nikolaydev.com so I can reply and give you a new version to use for this, since I am not releasing a new version soon.

Holy shit man…that’s incredible support.

Hi. Yes, you can use this example code below. It will copy site with ID 2 into site with ID 3 (replacing and deleting site ID 3) and it will do that for up to 5 seconds. If in this time it is not ready (due to many images that need to be copied for example or slow server) it will continue working later when the new site is visited by someone for the first time and it will not allow them access until it is finished.

By the way I can also create a custom plugin for you if you want to hire me, but that is a completely separate thing, not related to codecanyon.

if ( function_exists( ‘be_mu_copy_sites_copy_for_seconds’ ) ) { be_mu_copy_sites_copy_for_seconds( 2, 3, 5 ); }

Thanks for your quick reply! Do you have a method for creating the new site (ID 3) if it doesn’t exist as part of the process, as well as setting the administrator, site title, etc. or shall I just handle that in code one the above function returns. Also, is there a function that will just execute until complete (not for seconds)?

I haven’t worked on the feature to copy into new sites, but you can create a new site with this function https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/wpmu_create_blog and then replace the new site right away with my function. You will have to set administrator, title and so on but it is pretty easy, most of these are like one line of code. My plugin has some settings that will affect this function that I sent you, like to copy users or not, to copy title or not, but to further change these things you need to do it, since you will not want to keep the existing ones I guess. To execute the copy process forever just put a big number for seconds, but you shouldn’t put a longer time than your server execution time so the request can be finished. But generally you should just test how long it takes on your server and for your specific site that you are copying and it should be pretty consistent.

Thanks for your great support.

Sure, no problem.

Actually, a couple more thoughts

Basically I want to create a new site, add an administrator to it, set some custom user metadata and then use your function to install and existing site (template) to the new site.

I do want all pages, posts, images, etc. and I love that your plugin handles the copying of images, replacing links and so on.

However, I don’t want the users from the existing site (template) to be copied across or given permissions on the new site.

Once complete, I’d update the site title, set some custom site options, log the new admin into the new site and redirect them to the home page.

Would the aforementioned function allow me to do this? Could I control what does and does not get copied across, etc?

Thanks.

Yes, you can do all that. There is an option to not copy users. I just cannot answer yes completely to your last question, because it is broad and you do not have full control over what is copied and what not, but everything that you described before the last sentence can be done.

Thanks for your reply. Is there a way when copying posts from a template site to a new site that the post_author is updated to a specified new user? Especially if I enable the option to not copy the users from the template site.

No, but I wonder, if I add this option, how would we specify the user, it would have to be different for each new site copy, we cannot just specify one to always use.

I’m thinking more a filter or hook, which fires and allows me to set the post_author for posts and attachments, etc. Could always be an option in the settings to fire the filter similar to whether to delete posts if performance is a concern.

Sure, I can do a hook that fires after a site was copied, and allows you to choose which user ID to be set as an author for all posts. If you buy the plugin, send me an email at nikolay@nikolaydev.com and I will send you an edited version of the plugin with such a feature within 1 or 2 days.

Great, I’ll purchase the plugin next and drop you a line. Could this support setting the author for attachments too?

Yes, they are just posts with post type attachment. Maybe you can explain to me in more detail what exactly you need on email, I mean do you need to replace for all post types (posts, pages, attachments, products) or do you want to include an option to choose post types in the hook or something.

Just posts and attachments, but that could include CPT’s, so perhaps the post_type in the filter?

I don’t know what is CPT but I can add an option in the filter to list the post types you want.

CPT = Custom Post Type

Ah OK, well anyway, it is best for you to specify them when calling the filter, and you can include custom ones if you want.

Agreed, really if you add a filter for the post_author that denotes the post_type too I can determine whether to keep the original user or return a new one.

As always, thanks for your amazing support.

If that is decided based on the post type, you can just list the post types that need changing then, and that should do it, if I understand what you mean.

Yes, you just pass the post fields, including post_type in the filter and I’ll decide whether to return a new author. Or you can just pass the post ID and I can grab any fields / metadata I need, etc. to determine which action to take.

Hehe, I was thinking you just give a list of post types that need to change, and a user ID for the new author, and the plugin does the changes. Because there is no place where the plugin is going through every single post, so we add a filter there. But now I am thinking I can just make a hook that fires after site copy and gives you the site ID, and you can perform any action you want. You can get all posts and do anything to them with your own code

Sounds good to me, an event hook which fires on completion.