Alley

Matthew Boynes

<p>WordPress has a wonderful editing model with its “draft workflow”, where writers can save unpublished drafts, preview posts, submit drafts for review from a superior, and even schedule a post’s publication. This is all that most writers and teams ever needed for a blog. WordPress has extended beyond blogs, and has grown to be the preferred platform for any person or team writing for the web. While WordPress has evolved, its editing model has not, and this editing model is limited. Once a post is published, edits cannot follow the same workflow. That’s where this plugin comes in. This plugin has two powerful features, the ability to clone posts and the ability to replace posts with another, which combined, allow writers to leverage core’s “draft workflow” for published posts.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><em>Create clones of existing posts.</em> The replicas are created as drafts, and have all the same data (including terms and post meta) as the original post. The only things not cloned are child posts (which include revisions, attachments, and other posts)</li>
<li><em>Replace one post with another.</em> The replaced post becomes a revision of itself, the replacing post is essentially deleted, and you’re left with the replacing post’s data with the post ID and slug of the replaced post.</li>
</ul>
<p>Combined, these features give writers a pseudo-“fork and merge” model. Published posts can be cloned, the clones edited as any other draft can be, then the originals replaced with the clones.</p>
<p>Individually, these features are equally as useful. You don’t need to use the “fork and merge” model to take advantage of this plugin.</p>


Clone & Replace

Gives you the ability to clone posts, and replace posts. Together, you have a very powerful tool for a fork/merge editing model.

Globalis

David Daugreilh

Pierre Dargham

Julien OGER

<p>MultiSite Clone Duplicator adds a “Duplicate Site” functionality to your network installation.</p>
<p>It allows you to clone any site of your network into a new one : all data, files, users and roles can be copied.</p>
<p>It is useful when you want to create multiple sites from the same template : Don’t waste your time copying the same configuration again and again !</p>
<p>Simple and user-friendly, this plugin extends WordPress core network’s functionalities without polluting the dashboard.</p>
<p>WARNING : If you clone the primary site, you must use <code>mucd_default_primary_tables_to_copy</code> filter to declare plugins and custom database tables, or your cloned site won’t be complete</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Clones any site of your wordpress multisite installation</li>
<li>Copies all posts and settings</li>
<li>Generates log files (if option is checked)</li>
<li>Copy all files from duplicated site (if option is checked)</li>
<li>Keep users and roles from duplicated site (if option is checked)</li>
<li>Configure which site is clonable (so you can define an unique “pattern” site)</li>
<li>Fully hookable</li>
<li>Command line ready (provides a WP-CLI subcommand)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Hooks</h3>
<h4>Action : mucd_before_copy_files / mucd_after_copy_files</h4>
<p>Action before / after copying files<br />
<strong>Args :</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Int : from_site_id</li>
<li>Int : to_site_id</li>
</ol>
<h4>Action : mucd_before_copy_data / mucd_after_copy_data</h4>
<p>Action before / after copying data<br />
<strong>Args :</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Int : from_site_id</li>
<li>Int : to_site_id</li>
</ol>
<h4>Action : mucd_before_copy_users / mucd_after_copy_users</h4>
<p>Action before / after copying users<br />
<strong>Args :</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Int : from_site_id</li>
<li>Int : to_site_id</li>
</ol>
<h4>Filter : mucd_copy_blog_data_saved_options</h4>
<p>Filter options that should be preserved in the new blog (original values from created blog will not be erased by copy of old site’s tables)<br />
<strong>Args :</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Array of string : option_name</li>
</ol>
<h4>Filter : mucd_default_fields_to_update</h4>
<p>Filter fields to scan for an update after data copy<br />
<strong>Args :</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Array of ( ‘table_name’ => array(‘field_1’, ‘field_2’ …));</li>
</ol>
<h4>Filter : mucd_default_primary_tables_to_copy</h4>
<p>Filter tables to duplicate when duplicated site is primary site<br />
<strong>Args :</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Array of string table_name</li>
</ol>
<h4>Filter : mucd_copy_dirs</h4>
<p>Filter directories and files you want to copy<br />
<strong>Args :</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Array of string : dirs</li>
<li>Int : from_site_id</li>
<li>Int : to_site_id</li>
</ol>
<h4>Filter : mucd_string_to_replace</h4>
<p>Filter which strings we want to replace during update<br />
<strong>Args :</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>String : string_to_replace</li>
<li>Int : from_site_id</li>
<li>Int : to_site_id</li>
</ol>
<h3>WP-CLI arguments</h3>
<p>Arguments are :</p>
<pre><code>wp site duplicate --slug=<slug> --source=<site_id> [--title=<title>]
  [--email=<email>] [--network_id=<network-id>] [--private] [--porcelain] [--v]
  [--do_not_copy_files] [--keep_users] [--log=<dir_path>]<h3>Thank’s</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>The original version of this plugin has been developed by <a href="https://github.com/julienOG" rel="nofollow ugc">Julien OGER</a> who keeps following the project carefully.</p>
<p>Some code for search and replace in SQL serialised data were initialy taken from <a href="https://github.com/lpointet/wordpress_migration" rel="nofollow ugc">Lionel Pointet WordPress Migration tool</a></p>


MultiSite Clone Duplicator

Did the job - i love the terminal feature which prevents you from script timeouts. 

Great Plugin

A must-have when working with multiple sites.

Fantastic plugin

Clones an existing site into a new one in a multisite installation : copies all posts, settings and files

Clone & Replace vs MultiSite Clone Duplicator