WordPress Blogging

Cloning Your WordPress Blog Saves You Lots And Lots Of Time

If you use a WordPress blog, have you ever thought about how much time you put into making everything look just right?

Setting the discussion settings, changing the permalinks, setting up all the SEO plugins, creating the content, the categories, the navigation, finding that perfect theme – all the little seconds and minutes you spend making it all just right really adds up.

All the time you spend setting up that theme, the plugins, the files, the tweaks to the individual files – that might be hours if not weeks of trial and error until you get it exactly right.

Many people are used to documenting their steps, making a manual, figure out “What are the 50 steps I take to make a blog look perfect?”

But now you don’t have to do that. Simply set up your blog the way you want it, back it up, and restore it somewhere else and now you’ve exactly copied what your blog setup has.

Downloading WordPress files and uploading WordPress files does not give you exactly what you want.

The secret is also copying the WordPress database. If you know what you’re doing, you can download the WordPress database and put it up somewhere else but it’ll be pointing back to the old site which is no good either.

That’s why you need to have a WordPress Backup plugin that is specifically designed for cloning, which means that you can back it up on-site number 1 and restore it on site number 2 and it will include the themes, the plugins, the settings and it will all be pointing to the new site.

Setting up your WordPress blog and trying to duplicate your exact step-by-step method from before takes too long. Just moving the files over is not enough, you need to use a WordPress Backup plugin so that you only spend a few seconds copying your site, not minutes, not hours, and not weeks.