FittingSites

I agree that Multisite may not be the best fit for 100% turnover of client sites. Hopefully future versions of WP will make the move to single site easier.

For internal development (themes, plugins, Etc.) it looks like a good fit, however. I’ve created a multisite just for this purpose, and like what I see so far.

Thanks to you all for your feedback.

@ipstenu – Yeesh, that sounds like a fair amount of hoops to jump through! Thanks for what looks like a complete rundown of the process. Thankfully my dev sites only have a few users at most.

I suppose you could hybridize the move if you have a ton of users. I.E., strip users and posts out of the DB and then use the usual export/import process to bring that data over separately after you have the single site up and running.

@esmi – I agree with your thoughts. Primarily, I’m interested in using multisite to ease the process of keeping WP and associated plugins up-to-date. Some projects stretch over several months, and it is a pain in the ass to keep all my current (independent) dev. sites updated.