Wordpress: Move Multisite from server to localhost

Question

I am trying to move a deployed WordPress Multi-Site to a local environment. I backed up the server database and files. In my local environment, I created a new database and impo

Answer 1

Ninja's answer helped a lot. Though you can shorten the amount of the steps described in his answer by using wp-cli for database replacements, so you don't need any third party plugins and to edit single database cells manually. wp-cli's search-replace function works amazingly perfect, at least in my experience in case of usual wp sites. But in combination with the steps in ninja's answer it also has worked with multisite in my case. Here is a great description on how to install wp-cli: https://wp-cli.org

To replace a string through out all the sites run:

wp search-replace //oldurl.com //dev.url.test --network

Yes, the url strings are not wrapped with quotes. From my experience this way the replacement works perfect without any issues which might appear using quotes.

To replace strings in a particular site:

wp search-replace //oldurl.com //dev.url.test --url=https://oldurl.com

To see what urls are mapped to the sites:

wp site list --network

Though the db replacements worked well. I had to deactivate multisite in the wp-config.php (by removing all the multisite constant definitions) and all the plugins first and then to reactivate them from network dashboard.

wp-cli search-replace docs: https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/search-replace/