How to Clone a WordPress Site in 5 Easy Steps

When making changes to your WordPress site, a small misstep can lead to significant data loss. You might be migrating your website to a new hosting account, installing a plugin, or redesigning some pages. In all of these scenarios, taking the right precautions helps ensure that you don’t lose any of your content.

By cloning your website, you’ll be able to test any changes on a separate copy. This can also be useful if you decide to use the same design or functionality on a second site. Plus, you’ll have a safe backup of your content, should anything go wrong. 

This guide will take a closer look at when it makes sense to clone your website. It will also show you how to do this manually or by using a plugin. 

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Learn Why Jetpack is the Ideal Solution for Small Businesses (And Get Your Exclusive #SmallBusinessWeek Discount)

There’s a reason millions of small businesses use Jetpack for their WordPress sites. Actually there’s five reasons. As part of we’re highlighting the features and benefits Jetpack brings to small business. Read on to learn about them or scroll to the bottom for the discount code! featured-image-smallbiz

Reason #1: Free, Elegant, and Professional Designs

Whether you run a bookstore, cafe, restaurant, consulting firm, or are a freelancer, choosing a site design can be the hardest — and most expensive — first step. Jetpack provides 165 free, professionally designed WordPress themes that you can then customize with Jetpack’s own design tools. Most small business owners find this is an easier way to get started than purchasing expensive themes and then hiring a designer or developer. Read more about Jetpack’s free themes…

Reason #2: Cost-Effective and Affordable

The majority of Jetpack’s features are free. That’s already a great starting point for any business, especially since all our free features include most of what a typical website needs likes stats, related posts, an image CDN (saving you hosting costs), sharing tools, and email subscriptions. And our paid plans start from an affordable $39 per year: less than 11 cents a day. Read more about Jetpack’s cost-effectiveness…

Reason #3: Bulletproof Security

If you’re like most small business owners you don’t have the time — or the expertise — to be taking backups and auditing your site daily for hackers, malware, and spam. Our free security tools — including brute force attack protection and uptime monitoring — make sure you never miss out on traffic and business leads because your site is hacked or being overrun by spam. Our paid plans provide expert security support, automated backups (so if your site goes down you can get back up and running quickly), and security scanning to identify hacks and intrusions. Read more about Jetpack’s security services…

Reason #4: SEO and Marketing Tools

Out-of-the-box and for free Jetpack gets you going with making sure your site has a sitemap so that Google can list your site accurately. You also get social media sharing tools, automatic promotion to Facebook, Twitter and other sites, email subscriptions, and related posts so that readers stick around your site for longer. The main benefit most of our business users see here is not requiring a multitude of plugins to achieve these simple things and, just as importantly, not having to pay for them. Read more about Jetpack’s marketing tools…

Reason #5: World-Class Support

If you asked our customers what they rave about, most of them will mention our support. At last count we have thirty WordPress experts all over the globe ready to provide assistance — even to free users. Paying customers get priority which, when you compare the $39 minimum yearly cost to what a developer might charge, is significantly more affordable. Read more about Jetpack’s support…

Bonus Reason : Exclusive Discount

Just for this , in celebration of all the small businesses that keep the world turning, we’re offering a 20% one-time discount on all our paid subscriptions. Just use the code SMALLBIZ at checkout. And of course, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Next Steps: Compare plans and choose the right one for your site.

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