Our CI process sets up everything from scratch, including WordPress, and our WordPress is a multisite instance. Adding a site after the Multisite functionality has been setup is easy to do programatically, but the initial setup seems to need to be done manually.

Is there a way to setup the initial network tables without hitting install on the dashboard, maybe using WP-CLI or a build in method?

Our CI process sets up everything from scratch, including WordPress, and our WordPress is a multisite instance. Adding a site after the Multisite functionality has been setup is easy to do programatically, but the initial setup seems to need to be done manually.

Is there a way to setup the initial network tables without hitting install on the dashboard, maybe using WP-CLI or a build in method?

• multisite
• wp-cli

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WP-CLI has a couple of commands to install Multisite (or convert a non-Multisite WP installation to Multisite):

• wp core multisite-install
• wp core multisite-convert

Are either of those what you're looking for?