tr-migrate-multisite — Migrate a family of sites
Triggers on: “multisite”, “network of sites”, “our .se/.de/.co.uk sites”, “migrate all our sites”, “language versions”
For a single site, use tr-migrate-wp or tr-import-url instead.
One site or several?
Section titled “One site or several?”The first thing this skill settles, because it’s the expensive decision to reverse. A Typeroll site owns one domain (plus its www/apex sibling):
| Your old setup | What you build |
|---|---|
example.se, example.de, example.co.uk |
One Typeroll site per domain |
example.com/se/, example.com/de/ |
One site, language folders as page paths |
| Subdomains you want merged onto one domain | One site, plus redirects from the old hosts |
What it does
Section titled “What it does”| Phase | What happens |
|---|---|
| Plan | A written table of old site → new site → domain → language, confirmed with you before anything is created |
| Inventory | Every URL of every old site recorded up front — sitemaps, REST, Search Console exports. This is the artefact that tells you when you’re done |
| Reference build | One site built and approved properly, so design mistakes aren’t multiplied by ten |
| Replicate | The design travels as a block-type package; settings, partials and templates follow per site |
| Content | Pages migrated with their paths preserved; internal links rewritten to the new site |
| Redirects | Every URL that didn’t keep its path gets a redirect, or an explicit sign-off that it may 404 |
| hreflang | Each page declares its equivalents on the sister domains, on all sides |
| Verify | Every old URL is requested against the new site and the gaps fixed — before DNS is touched |
Linking language versions (hreflang)
Section titled “Linking language versions (hreflang)”Because each market is its own site, nothing can work out which German page corresponds to which Swedish one — that mapping is declared per page:
“Link the Swedish, German and UK versions of the About page together.”
The AI agent writes the cluster on all sides (search engines ignore one-sided clusters), uses the final domains rather than temporary URLs, and adds each page’s self-reference automatically.
Try it
Section titled “Try it”“We have ten WordPress sites in a multisite — a .se, a .de, a .co.uk and seven more. Read the tr-migrate-multisite skill and let’s plan the move.”
The AI agent starts with the plan table and the URL inventories, not with building. That order is deliberate: the inventory is what makes “are we finished?” answerable.