Yuya Hoshino

How it works:
<ol>
<li>
Click ‘Tools > Clone Test DB’.
</li>
<li>
Enter the ‘Test site address’.
</li>
<li>
Select ‘Test database name’.
</li>
<li>
Click ‘Create a clone site’.
</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>To view the test site, you will need to transfer files.</li>
<li>Sorry, multi-site is not supported.</li>
</ul>

Clone Test DB

It's a five star plugin just because it works as advertised, and it's easy to use it even though it has it's limitations, and you have to take a couple if (easy) steps.

1. Before cloning the database, edit the target folder's wp-config.php file, and change the database name to the target one (new installation's database). This is the code define( 'DB_NAME', "YOUR_DATABASE_NSME_HERE" );

2. After you clone the database, and if the cloned site is displaying a 404 (page not found) on the posts, pages, cpt, then log in to the backsite, and flash (update) the permalinks, this will solve the 404 errors.

Ok now the limitation: There is only one, and it is the fact that both websites HAVE to be on the same server, you cannot have a localhost -> live situation or vice versa for example, I hope the ability to log in into external databases will be added soon.



It's getting the job done.

Duplicate the table in another database and optimize it as a test site.

bgermann

Beginning with version 15 <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cforms2" rel="ugc">cformsII</a> does not have built-in Tracking Database support anymore. However it allows for arbitrary plugins to process the validated form submissions. This plugin implements the old tracking database submission feature via this mechanism, but it will not have any new features. E.g. there will not be any user interface.
You will have to rely on direct database access via any MySQL software to view the data or you can use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cformstable" rel="ugc">Unofficial CForms II table display</a> to view the tracking database on any page via Shortcodes.
There are two tables involved in the Tracking DB: “cformssubmissions” and “cformsdata”, which are prefixed by the wordpress installation prefix that is “wp_” by default.

Old Tracking DB for cformsII

Beginning with version 15 cformsII does not have built-in Tracking Database support anymore. However it allows for arbitrary plugins to process the va …

Clone Test DB vs Old Tracking DB for cformsII