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How To Clone WordPress Site Manually And Save Hours of Work

How To Clone WordPress Site Manually And Save Hours of Work

In this post, we will guide you in simple steps on how to make a copy of a WordPress site manually.

Steps to Clone WordPress Site Manually

  • Firstly, You need to log into your cPanel and click on the particular domain that you are wanted to clone. Go to file manager and compress all the WordPress files and download it. Clone a WordPress Site ManuallyClone a WordPress Site Manually
  • You need to copy the database from your live site to your staging site to later test changes in your staging environment. To do this, you need to log into phpMyAdmin through cPanel and select your current live database. After you have selected, click the custom radio button. Clone a WordPress Site ManuallyClone a WordPress Site ManuallyClone a WordPress Site Manually
  • Click the Go button to download the database.
  • After your database is downloaded, go to the staging server, locate file manager, enter into it and create a new folder with the name of the site ending with –staging. Upload the files to this folder.Clone a WordPress Site Manually
  • Go to MySQL® Databases Create new database name, user, and password, give it all privilege permission, then go to phpmyadmin and locate the DB name and upload the downloaded database. Clone a WordPress Site ManuallyClone a WordPress Site ManuallyClone a WordPress Site Manually
  • Change the database name, database username, and password in the wp-config.php. Clone a WordPress Site Manually
  • Run the “kznusg378s” link changer folder to changing the link of the site. http://yourthemedesigner.com/Dragonfly/kznusg378s.zip Clone a WordPress Site Manually
  • After hitting the live run you can access the staging site with new URL.
  • Now log on to WordPress admin, and change the permalink to get the access to inner pages. Clone a WordPress Site ManuallyClone a WordPress Site ManuallyClone a WordPress Site Manually

These 9 steps you should follow to manually clone your WordPress site manually for testing to live.

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Mohammad Mohsin
Mohammad Mohsin is a Web Consultant who writes about UI/UX experiences, Digital Marketing, New Web Trends and Leadership Skills. At M&M Web Solutions he leads an extremely talented team of Designers, Front-end and Back-end Developers who help to deliver online business solutions to startups, small business and large corporates across the globe.
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