i run 3 wordpress sites.
they are each on different installations.
i don’t really want to combine them right now because i’m not very proficient technically, with wordpress, but i might want to combine them at a later date, to make it easier to administer.
but i want to check in case it’s better to set it up now, because i’m just setting one wordpress site up — maybe it’s better to do this now.
so my question is: at a later date, when i have 3 sites running, each with lots of content on, can i combine them at that time?
or does setting up multisite involve starting things from scratch?
Yes, you can. I’ve found the easiest way to do so is to use the Export/Import feature, but it really depends on the site, and sometimes you have to get creative. Assuming these will be easy, what you would do is setup a multisite install, create new sites within this for each of your 3 solo sites, export XML files from your solo sites, then import those XML files respectively into the new sites in your Multisite network.
Does that make sense?