Uploads All your images are stored in your uploads folder. You may also consider installing an exact copy of your parent and child theme before importing your posts and pages.
Installing exactly the same plugins is another option you may consider before importing your content. How about you? Do you design your website on your local computer? Comments You could also use the BackupBuddy plugin. BackupBuddy Plugin. Log in to Reply. Thanks for your comment. This will open a pop-up where you should select the platform you are using Windows or Mac and enter your details.
Once Local by Flywheel has finished downloading, click on the file to begin the installation. You may be prompted to allow changes to your computer throughout this process. Duplicator can be used to move your website from one host to another , but it also provides an easy way to make a copy of your content so that you can create a local version of your website.
To install the Duplicator plugin hover over Plugins in the left-hand menu and click Add New. Then use the search form on the plugins page to search for Duplicator.
It looks like this:. Once you have activated Duplicator you will see a new item in the left-hand menu of WordPress called Duplicator. Hover over this and click Packages. In Duplicator you create packages which are essentially just backups of your website.
These packages also come with an installer file which is used when you are moving hosts. The first step in the process is to set up your package. Start by giving it a suitable name. I recommend leaving all the other settings as they are. If you do see this then click Build to move on to the next step. Sometimes Duplicator will not be able to make a copy of your website if there are issues. In this example, some of the media files were too large and there was an issue with the caching plugin I was using.
If you want to continue regardless of the warnings, tick the box next to Yes. Continue with the build process! Once it is complete you will see the Package Completed confirmation page. As you will see there are two files to download. The first in the installer file that I mentioned before and the second is the archive which is the backup of your website. The archive file in a compressed zip folder.
You may want to ensure you are logged in as an admin user on your cloned site as the most likely reason for that issue. How do you change the name of the website, the url and also the database when installing the cloned site using Duplicator? Hi, I have a question , can a clone my site without erased the other one , i mean the original website?
This is a great post. No matter where you are copying the files, you need to make sure that the folder is completely empty and has no other files or folders inside it except installer. If I already have a theme and started building a site before finding this article, do I need to delete everything from the destination? If you want to duplicate a site from elsewhere then you would need to remove what is currently there for your site.
All files are deleted, besides the now unzipped folder which contain all the files. I tried with and without, but get the same result. Even after this, in Step 4, I still get the 2 warnings in the General Notices: wp-config not found wp-config. I found the wp-config. Are they the same? You likely installed your WordPress site in the subfolder rather than the root folder for your site. Sorry, forgot to say. If I type in the full path on my web browser, I have a loading time, but end up on a white page.
Cloning works well with duplicator but having a clone site online seems not to be liked by jetpack. During my tests Jetpack have put himselt in failure on the original site even if jetpack was not active one the cloned site telling me the original was a copy of the clone.
While there is a problem with simply cloning a site without any new content, the primary goal would normally be to use this when transferring your site from one location to another and then removing the old site or using the copied site as a template and adding new content to your new site.
You may want to check with Pocket if there is a cache that needs to be cleared on their end as well. They suggest it might be a problem with their Parser, which checks the content and determines the best way to display it. I wand to upgrade my production site to WP 5 and change themes. I thought it might be a good idea to clone my site on my local windows machine under Desktop Server. Let me just add that your tuto is perfectly straightforward as long as things go well.
Firstly Duplicator package creation times out despite having filtered out the big files. On the Desktop Server local side I tried to run installer. I contacted Desktop Server support about that and have had no answer. I did make one error though, I extracted the zip file and uploaded the files in ftp which did create errors. Much easier to simply upload the zip instead. You would likely need to extract the zip once it is on your hosting provider but glad you found a solution for your error. I copy sites all the time.
The plugins actually look more complicated than doing it manually. Just download your files, back up your database, ftp to the new server, restore your database to your new database, edit the wp-config file to point to the new database, edit the url in your database to point to the new url. I had a site not pass our security scan that used the plugin. Also, the database back up was stored in the root of your site. I used a much simpler way.
My WP installation is with Godaddy…so logged in the cPanel of the site I wanted to cloned…went to subdomains and created the domain for the site destination…then I went to applications and the top of cPanel and clicked the little check box next the primary site I wanted to clone…then hit the clone button…and voila…and exact copy of our site was created in less than 10 minutes….
Is there any plugin or other software that could clone a wordpress website to another wordpress on the live? The price for this is riduculous. What an absolute rippoff! Better off just going to Control Panel, zipping up your files and download them … then go to PHPMyAdmin and downloading a copy of your database. Then upload your zipped files to the new location…edit the config file, then import the database. Either of you have a step by step guide? I am trying to copy my site to a subdomain to target a different city from the main site.
The only thing I understand so far is that I have to: 1. What are you talking about? Duplicator is free. Hi, I would like to know how to clone any wordpress website have no hosting access information as well. I mean, suppose a buyer order your wpbeginner like website. Then, How to do it sir. Do you have any tutorials plz. Hi Sandeep, Did you get solution to this.
I also want to copy a theme to another website subdomain. These have to be cleaned up manually. So I wonder, does BackupBuddy do the same thing? Is this to be expected?
BackupBuddy fails on large WordPress installs. I had to manually download all of the files, then re-upload them to the new site and use importbuddy with just the database. Even that fails if the raw database is too large failed around MB in size. I recently moved a small simple blog with all-in-one wordpress migration and it worked great. But when I attempted a larger site on wp4.
I think I would like back up buddy but the price is staggering. It would be my biggest wordpress expense, almost twice as much as my hosting!
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