How to easily clone your own WP-blog?
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Riders On The Storm
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- Feb 27, 2012
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Use duplicator plugin to clone and then bulk remove the content. its free and does the work well.
MajinFatBuu
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- Mar 9, 2012
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use backup & clone master plugin(shared here by roshaen,search it on download section)
In case you want to do this manually, here is how it's done:
1. export WP database (using phpmyadmin -> select database -> EXPORT (use SQL format))
2. copy all content from your current wp folder to the new (using FTP usually)
3. edit exported .SQL file (replace old URL to new URL. ie. old sitename was "www.example.com", replace it to "www.newsite.com" using notepad)
4. create WP database on the new location
5. import previously exported .SQL file into the new location (using phpmyadmin -> select database >- IMPORT)
6. edit wp-config accordingly to the new database, login info
7. login to wp-admin, remove previous author (it will remove all posts which belong to him), or just delete all posts
8. optionally delete wp-contect/uploads folder, it contains all your uploaded media files (check it first if your plugins don't have anything in this folder)
Cheers
1. export WP database (using phpmyadmin -> select database -> EXPORT (use SQL format))
2. copy all content from your current wp folder to the new (using FTP usually)
3. edit exported .SQL file (replace old URL to new URL. ie. old sitename was "www.example.com", replace it to "www.newsite.com" using notepad)
4. create WP database on the new location
5. import previously exported .SQL file into the new location (using phpmyadmin -> select database >- IMPORT)
6. edit wp-config accordingly to the new database, login info
7. login to wp-admin, remove previous author (it will remove all posts which belong to him), or just delete all posts
8. optionally delete wp-contect/uploads folder, it contains all your uploaded media files (check it first if your plugins don't have anything in this folder)
Cheers
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this ^^ is how you should do it.
Duplicator is free and easy to use, awesome plugin.
indieee
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- Sep 11, 2010
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Manual method - mentioned a few posts above by farkasb
Auto method - Install the ultimate WP plugin, and do some reading (good for multi sites)
Auto method (paid) - Use a plugin called Backup Buddy. Mainly used for backing up sites, but also for moving/cloning sites.
Auto method - Install the ultimate WP plugin, and do some reading (good for multi sites)
Auto method (paid) - Use a plugin called Backup Buddy. Mainly used for backing up sites, but also for moving/cloning sites.
ATRONOT SEO
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- Jan 30, 2014
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you try to look at your hosting, on the theme there to copy your website, if you are still confused try to googling ...
When you copy and paste the plugin/themes it will work. However the default data
as in what background you set and if you had any configuration settings inside of your
plugin/theme will all be lost since that data is stored elsewhere.