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(this trick works for all plugins in the WP repo – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the URL)
WP Clone is a great way to backup, migrate or clone a WordPress site to another domain or hosting server.
You can also use it to backup, migrate or clone your site to/from local server hosting, to create backup of your site for development or testing purposes, and to install pre-configured backups of WordPress.
WP Clone is a superior to other backup & migrate plugins for the following reasons:
<ul>
<li>It does not require FTP access to backup files you migrate or clone, neither the source or destination site; just install a new WordPress on the destination site, install our backup plugin, and follow the prompts to migrate or clone your site.</li>
<li>It does not backup or restore the WordPress system files (it just creates user content and database backups); reducing upload time for migration and improving security of your site</li>
<li>It fetches the site backup via your host’s direct http connection, which saves you from having to upload large backup files, making it easier to migrate.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What are today’s limitations?</h4>
Today:
<ul>
<li>90% of cases: Backups & migrations work flawlessly (we fixed some key bugs in the most recent version)</li>
<li>9% of cases: Backups or migrations fail due to your hoster’s configurations (most likely limits in up- and downloads) which is typically the case when you backup or migrate very large sites. However, there’s a workaround: simply do a “Database Only” backup (use “Advanced Settings”), transfer the wp-content directory over with FTP, and then restore new site. Then backup and migration also works.</li>
<li>1% of cases: Your site/hosting is abnormal (pardon our French) and backup or migration doesn’t work. However: that’s what we’ll now be working on, so that eventually backups and migrations will work in all cases.</li>
</ul>
The 1% case means:
<ul>
<li>Basic rule: DO NOT use it as your only backup solution! Only use it for migrations (so that if something fails, you still have the files on your old site as backup).</li>
<li>If you want to use it as backup, test it by restoring the backup file on a new site. If that works fine you should be safe.</li>
<li>In any case, we cannot take any responsibility if backup or migration fails.</li>
</ul>
Note: 
* There is never an issue in damaging the source installation (i.e. on the site where you create the backup). So backup sites at your pleasure. If your backup succeeds then chances are good that the migration (i.e. restore on another site) will also succeed. But don’t take any chances. 
* If backup or migration (restore) fails, just try it again. Often it works on second attempt.
<h4>Other tips how to backup and migrate</h4>
<ul>
<li>NEVER overwrite an installation for which you do not have an alternate backup source (e.g. a cPanel backup). Normally you would restore the backup onto a fresh WP installation on another host or on a subdomain. If the restore fails your destination site might become unusable, so be prepared to enter cPanel and then destroy / recreate the new installation if necessary.</li>
<li>DO NOT use our backup plugin on WP Engine or any hosting system with proprietary operating system. Instead, use their built-in backup tools.</li>
<li>Large sites (>2GB) might take as long as an hour to backup and migrate. Sites of 250 MB or less should take no more than a minute or two to backup, depending on your server.</li>
<li>We recommend you deactivate and delete page caching, security and maybe redirection plugins before you migrate, and re-install them on the new site, if necessary. In general, delete all unnecessary plugins and data from your site before you backup. You can also use the “Exclude directories” option if you have large media files, which you can then copy back to the new site with FTP.</li>
<li>How to copy from local server to your hosted website: Create a backup of the local site in the usual way, then save the backup file (right-click > Save) to your local disk. Upload this file to the root directory of your destination website and then use this url in the “Restore” dialog of the new site: http://yourdomain.com/.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Help Video</h4>
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xN5Ffhyn4Ao?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h4>Credits</h4>
WP Clone uses functions from the “Safe Search and Replace on Database with Serialized Data” script first written by David Coveney of Interconnect IT Ltd (UK) http://www.davidcoveney.com or http://www.interconnectit.com and released under the WTFPL http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/. Partial script with full changelog is placed inside ‘lib/files’ directory.
This plugin is part of the Inisev product family – <a href="https://inisev.com" rel="nofollow ugc">check out our other products</a>.

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All-in-one bundle of essential plugins and functions for all WordPress websites.
<h4>Features include:</h4>
Twitter Feed
<ul>
<li>Twitter feed shortcode and widget available.</li>
<li>WP Essentials uses the new Twitter 1.1 API.</li>
<li>Filter your Twitter feed by hashtags.</li>
<li>Cache system prevents API call limit.</li>
</ul>
Flickr
<ul>
<li>Flickr feed shortcode and widget available.</li>
<li>Cache system prevents API call limit.</li>
<li>Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.</li>
</ul>
Google Analytics
<ul>
<li>Allows you to add multiple tracking codes to all pages of your website.</li>
</ul>
Google Maps
<ul>
<li>Easily include multiple Google Maps throughout your site either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget.</li>
<li>Includes options for setting the address, zoom level, custom marker, etc.</li>
</ul>
The ‘Email’ Button
<ul>
<li>The WYSIWYG editor comes with an email button for easily adding email links without any HTML knowledge.</li>
</ul>
Date Shortcode
<ul>
<li>Includes a simple shortcode for displaying today’s date.</li>
<li>Customise the date format to whatever you want.</li>
</ul>
Video Shortcode
<ul>
<li>Includes a simple shortcode for embedding any YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook videos anywhere on your website.</li>
</ul>
Get Shortcode
<ul>
<li>Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.</li>
</ul>
The ‘Cleanup’ function:
<ul>
<li>Sets search engine friendly permalink structure (if one hasn’t already been set)</li>
<li>Removes useless widgets from the dashboard</li>
<li>Removes superfluous meta tags from your theme head (including the WordPress version number)</li>
<li>Removes detailed login errors (for extra security)</li>
</ul>
The ‘User Roles’ function:
<ul>
<li>Creates a new User Role and lets you customise their access rights.</li>
</ul>
Debug Mode
<ul>
<li>For developers, enable the debug mode to include detailed PHP errors when developing your theme.</li>
</ul>
WordPress Error Reporting
<ul>
<li>WP Essentials can alert you to several potential problems that are important for when a site goes live. (Ensuring robots aren’t blocked, etc.)</li>
</ul>
Media Image Quality
<ul>
<li>Change the quality of uploaded images to your website.</li>
</ul>
Custom Image Sizes
<ul>
<li>Add your own custom thumbnail sizes for your images.</li>
</ul>
Advanced PHP Functions
<ul>
<li>Custom Excerpt function lets you override the default WordPress excerpt with additional options.</li>
<li>A Get Image Source function lets you get the image URL for any image uploaded to WordPress at any custom thumbnail size.</li>
<li>An automatic link function lets you hyperlink any web or email addresses that may otherwise be plaintext.</li>
<li>A Relative Time function lets you display dates and times in a relative manner (i.e. ‘5 minutes ago’).</li>
</ul>
And more…
We’re always open to new ideas and suggestions for adding new features to the plugin.
<h4>WP Essentails Premium</h4>
A Premium version of this plugin is also available.
Features include:
Twitter Feed
<ul>
<li>Supports multiple Twitter accounts.</li>
</ul>
Instagram Feed
<ul>
<li>Include an Instagram feed either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget anywhere throughout your website.</li>
<li>Includes a caching system to protect you from reaching your API call limit.</li>
<li>Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.</li>
</ul>
Social Stream
<ul>
<li>Combine Twitter, Instagram and Flickr into one social stream feed.</li>
<li>Supports Isotope and infinite scrolling.</li>
</ul>
Login Notification
<ul>
<li>Users will be automatically emailed any time their account is used to log in.</li>
</ul>
Holding Page
<ul>
<li>Display a holding page with a custom title and message.</li>
<li>Password protect your settings.</li>
</ul>
Unlimited User Roles:
<ul>
<li>No restriction on the number of User Roles you can create.</li>
</ul>
The ‘Database’ functions:
<ul>
<li>Allows you to email yourself a database backup at any time.</li>
<li>Includes an automatic weekly backup function that emails you with full database backups.</li>
</ul>
Styling Options
<ul>
<li>WP Essentials includes functions to render LESS or SASS files directly on the server before outputting the CSS to the browser.</li>
<li>Choose between CSS, LESS or SASS.</li>
</ul>
Get Shortcode
<ul>
<li>Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.</li>
</ul>

WP Essentials

All-in-one bundle of essential plugins and functions for all WordPress websites.

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