Wordpress clone tool suggestions

SupaMonkey

SupaMonkey

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Hey Guys,
I hate to install WP and all the plugins/themes I use each time I setup a new site. Short of doing it all or manually copying the files and altering the domain name references - isnt there some tool out there that just lets me enter the new domain name and ftp details and makes a clone of my WP site?! :confused:

TIA!
 
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Wouldn't trust this kind of tool.
Copy a folder for the plugins/themes via ftp, it takes 2 secs.
 
I would not really trust any automated solutions really (although I sell that MRR product on one of my websites)

Simply get a backup of your WP folder and SQL database.
Open up the SQL database with something like Notepad++ (not the Notepad of Windows)
Search & replace your old wordpress installation domain with your new one.
Code: 
  Like http://www.youroldwpdomain.com to http://www.yournewwpdomain.com
Upload the WP folder to new site
Make a new mySQL database and import the changed SQL file.
Open up wp-config.php and edit the database and user settings.
That's all...
 
BUT..
what if I wanted to grab someone else's
great looking wordpress to redesign as my own ?
 
ulijonroth said:
Simply get a backup of your WP folder and SQL database.
Open up the SQL database with something like Notepad++ (not the Notepad of Windows)
Search & replace your old wordpress installation domain with your new one.
Code: 
  Like http://www.youroldwpdomain.com to http://www.yournewwpdomain.com
Upload the WP folder to new site
Make a new mySQL database and import the changed SQL file.
Open up wp-config.php and edit the database and user settings.
That's all...
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That isn't guaranteed to work. The problem is that WP uses a lot of serialized arrays. If the length of the domain name changes, then the arrays will break.
 
MakeLemonade said:
That isn't guaranteed to work. The problem is that WP uses a lot of serialized arrays. If the length of the domain name changes, then the arrays will break.
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this is true, what i usually do is simple, just add these to your wp-config.php file:
Code: 
define('WP_HOME', 'h**p://YourFullURLHere'); // no trailing slash
define('WP_SITEURL', 'h**p://YourFullURLHere');  // no trailing slash
Wordpress will use these values instead of looking for them in the DB, however this is not full proof because poor plugin developers my store a url in the DB for one reason or another, instead of using the wordpress global var
 
A while back I developed a plugin that backs up an entire site to the rackspace cloud, then at anytime you could pull done a rebuild/clone script for that site and all you had to do was simply put one file on your new server, file out a form with the new db, url info and the plugin would pull down the backup form rackspace and rebuild your site with the new vars. The ideas was that you could have a template site running (with no content) that was always being updated then just clone off that. Let me know if anyone is interested in this and I will resurrect it
 
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