wordpress-clone-feature-image

How To Clone A WordPress Site

I have written about cloning WordPress sites before and because I moved to a new hosting company some months ago, the process was a little different. Having built a new website for the Spanish version of my book, I needed to create a mirror image of that site in English which is easy because both are static sites without a blog. Prostack, the hosting company I am with, uses a version of cPanel with Softaculous which is described as an auto-installer that makes installing web apps easier. I used Softaculous to install WordPress on elultimopresidenteingles.com, put the site together with the Landing theme from Themify, and then set about creating a sub-domain with the prefix eng/. After that, I went back to Softaculous to clone the site to the new sub-domain.

This stage of the cloning process is very important because you must be sure that you are cloning to the correct domain. If you have several active domains, it’s a good idea to double-check that you are cloning to the correct domain or sub-domain because you may accidentally overwrite a valued website that took you weeks or maybe months to build.

Once the cloning process was completed – less than a minute – I then edited the site into English, changed one or two images, and backlinked each site to one another. That is to say, I created a menu dropdown on each site with a link to the other language version, and here is the version in English eng.elultimopresidenteingles.com. The advantage of cloning is much more pronounced if the site is static – a showcase if you like.

And that’s it! A simple way to clone your websites.

Exit mobile version

WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER?

Get great content like this delivered to your inbox!

It's free, convenient, and delivered right to your inbox! We do not spam and we will not share your address. Period!