clone WP blogs R

If you have many WordPress blogs and especially when you create lots of WordPress blogs – you’ll appreciate saving time by doing a simple “clone” of your blog! I know what it means – installing the brand-new copy of WordPress, installing the theme, the plugins, changing the settings - those are thing you do every time you install a new blog… Now I create a new blog every few days – I can’t imagine going through the same boring process and especially when I need to save time and be more effective! So let’s not waste your time and let me go to the process of cloning your current – kind of default – WordPress blog (you’re going to use over and over). 1) I use lots of AdSense optimized themes for creating simple article blogs, so I’d use that blog as an example.

You’re going to need WP Backup Plugin; you can download latest version here. (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/) – it’s free. After activating the plugin, you need to go here and create a backup of your “default” blog – of course you can use it to backup any blog you’d like to move. Save it to your PC, I recommend using a new directory called for example “Default Blog Setting”… And the 1st step is finished!  Now my default WP blog settings are backed up: it contains my theme setup, my permalinks structure, my plugins settings, my posts and categories – if there are any, etc… etc… 2) This step will be a bit more complicated, but don’t worry, if you follow this plan exactly you’ll be fine!  You need to login to your Cpanel of your web hosting. Or you need to access your WP blog via FTP (you can use FTPzilla or any other FTP client). I prefer using the Cpanel option, I’ll tell you why later.  Let’s use this blog (as a default blog): http://howtotieatie.uniquedir.com/ I just login to my web hosting account’s Cpanel (http://howtotieatie.uniquedir.com/cpanel) and click the “File Manager”, see here: