Have you felt the need to clone your WordPress website? There may be times when you want to move your website from one location to another or when you just need to close an existing site in your network. The process can be stressful and challenging, but doesn’t need to be. You can make the use of WordPress clone plugin and securely move your website.
Best WordPress Clone Plugins
1) WP Clone by WP Academy
WP Clone is one of the popular WP clone plugins that allow you to securely move or copy your WordPress powered website to another domain or hosting server. Some of its distinguishing features include fetching the site backup via your host’s direct http connection, does not require FTP access to the website, does not backup or restore the WordPress system files and lots more.
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.9.2
Last Updated: 2014-9-18
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2) Duplicator
Duplicator is also a good choice when you want to migrate, copy or clone a website from one location to another. It supports serialized and base64 serialized string replacement. It also works for developing locally and pushing up to a production server for first time release. The plugin requires technical knowledge for successful move.
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.1.1
Last Updated: 2015-3-9
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3) Cloner
Cloner allows you to move entire site or select specific elements to replicate. It copies any WordPress website on your multisite network and moves it to another URL. Cloner combines sophisticated duplicate and move functions with simple setup. You just need to install Cloner on your network and it delivers quality websites, test environment and staging areas.
Cost: $19/month
Ratings: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.1.1
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4) WordPress Backup & Clone Master
With WordPress Backup & Clone Master, you can a get solution for WordPress backup, restoration and cloning. It helps you to create full WordPress backups including content, settings, themes and plugins. It works on any hosting environment and you can also create a new database on a remove server directly from the plugin.
Cost: $27
Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.0
Last Updated: 2014-12-13
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5) XCloner
Here comes a complete backup and restore plugin that has been designed to generate custom backups of any lamp website through custom admin inputs. With the automatic Restore script, one will be able to restore the clone on any other location. All-in-all, this plugin generates and stores the backups, moves the backup and restores script to new location.
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.0.1
Last Updated:2015-1-5
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6) WP Migrate DB
For those who need to update their local install with fresh data or copy their locally developed site to a staging or production server, WP Migrate DB is a good choice. It exports your database to MySQL data dump, finds and replaces on URLs and file paths to save it on your computer. Pro version of plugin comes with email support and enhanced features.
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.1.1
Last Updated: 2014-10-29
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Have you used any of the above clone plugins? What has been your experience of using it? or do you use some other clone plugin? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!