switch multisite main site

Changing the domain name is fairly easy but swapping one site for another site as primary is right involved. As far as I know, there’s no plugin. It can be a perilous task… I have done it.

My advice would be to not do that… I use a dedicated domain name for my primary network site. With domain mapping built-in you can use a subdomain even as your primary… I like calling my network primaries as ‘NOC’ dot domain name now.

Anyway, here’s a StackExchange answer about that process if you wish to try it.

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/232038/switching-primary-site-in-wordpress-multisite/235578

Read up on it well and do a backup first and consider may be using a new multisite instead, just changing the domain name instead, and/or migrating the site using the primary to a subsite instead.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by JNashHawkins.

I tried to create a new multisite using Siteground, but for some reason even though I chose the option to make it a multisite, I don’t see the option to add more subsites. The entire network section is gone on wp.

I was hoping that if I create a new multisite, I could later export my old site on the previous network into this new network as a subsite.

If you want to change the primary domain of your WordPress multisite installation, there are 5 values to change. There is no need to perform a database dump. This is actually frowned upon, as WordPress stores serialized data in the database, and altering it can cause corruption

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner).
• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner). Reason: Removed spammy link in text

Thanks you for the reply. Do you know what these 5 values are that need to be changed? I’ve yet to find a proper step by step process online.