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WP Toolkit – Cloning a WordPress Website

 
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Cloning a WordPress website involves creation of a full website copy with
all website files, database, and settings.

You may want to clone your WordPress website in one of the following
situations:

  • You maintain a non-public (staging) version of a WordPress website on a
    separate domain or subdomain, and you want to publish it to a
    production domain to make it publicly available.
  • You have a publicly available (production) WordPress website and you
    want to create a non-public (staging) copy of it, to which you can
    make changes without affecting the production website.
  • You want to create a “master” copy of a WordPress website with
    preconfigured settings, plugins, and theme, and then clone it to
    start a new development project for a client.
  • You want to create multiple copies of a WordPress website and make
    different changes to each one (for example, to show them to a client
    so that he or she can choose the one he or she likes best).

Clone a WordPress website:

  1. Go to WordPress and then click “Clone” on the card of the WordPress installation you want to clone.

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  2. Choose the target where to clone the website:

    • Keep “Create subdomain” to have WP Toolkit create a new subdomain with the default “staging” prefix.
      You can use it or type in a desired subdomain prefix.
    • Select “Use existing domain or subdomain” and
      then select the desired domain or subdomain from the list.

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    Caution: Make sure that the domain or subdomain selected as the target
    is not being used by an existing website.
    During cloning, website data existing on the target may be overwritten and irrevocably lost

  3. (Optional) Change the name of the database automatically created during cloning.

  4. When you are satisfied with the selected target and the database name, click Start.

When the cloning is finished, the new clone will be displayed in the list of WordPress installations.

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