Introducing the New and Improved ManageWP Clone/Migrate Wizard!

Clones

Deploying a new WordPress website or cloning/migrating an existing one has never been easier or quicker.

We’ve just released an update to one of our most used features, the Clone/Migration Wizard. We’ve added an option for you to select one of your website backups as a source for cloning. User interface is improved and focused on leading you through three simple steps to complete the process.

1. Select Source

The source can be an existing website, one of your website backups, a backup file URL or a clean WordPress installation.

2. Select Destination

You can clone over an existing website or create a new website (you need to provide FTP and MySQL account details for the latter).

3. Clone

Just press the clone button then sit back and congratulate yourself on the time you’ve saved!

Your Turn

Now, go to your ManageWP dashboard and check how awesome the Clone/Migrate Wizard is! If you have the ManageWP dashboard already opened in your browser, just do a page refresh or try clearing your browser cache and then opening the ManageWP dashboard again.

Let us know how you like it and stay tuned as we are about to add an option to connect via SFTP when deploying to a new website!

Photo Credit: HJ Media Studios

16 responses

Jo Rellime

September 23, 2013

So are you saying this plug in creates a “test” environment for my blog that I can migrate over to replace the production version when I feel it is ready? Please say it is so! I would LOVE that!

Monte

September 24, 2013

Jo, you have to have a server to host the “test” site. But once you have an DB setup, yes, this takes care of copying everything from one site to another. I’ve been using it for over a year for everything.

AndrewM

September 24, 2013

If I have a development environment with a domain name of abc.com, when cloning to def.com, will ManageWP automatically change the internal database references to “def”? Otherwise I’d still have to do a global search and replace, cascading into all pointers and hyperlinks.

David

September 25, 2013

Does the database search replace take care of serialised arrays, as most of the time the site URL will be in a serialised array?

I’ve been using this tool to do that http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases but might swap if the clone tool handles this now.

Arp

September 30, 2013

If using ManageWP with multisite, can this be used to clone or backup a single networked site? Or would it grab the complete db?

info@audacityoffashion.eu

October 4, 2013

For my sins, I have to move a working site to 1&1

The clone tool is not having much luck bringing over the backup files

Is there a known workaround?

test

May 31, 2014

“>;(

myseoulinbkk@gmail.com

February 15, 2015

I know this thread’s been here a while but hope I can still get some answers. I’m currently stuck at the page after selecting a source; it shows “Creating a snapshot of your website. Please wait…” for over an hour now. I don’t know if this normal. Help?