Wordpress Cloner Plugin To Manage Multiple Blogs
“CTRL+C for your Wordpress Blog” – I love that tagline!
If you have multiple Wordpress blogs, you’d probably know by now that managing all of them at a time can be a total pain in the ass.
The headache comes when you need to install a new theme or plugin to all your blogs. It becomes even harder if those themes or plugins need to be modified or adjusted in a certain way.
WP Cloner (not to be confused with “Wordpress Cloner” by Mike Filsaime) is software from Anthony Ellis that allows you to manage multiple Wordpress blogs by “cloning” one blog’s setting to an unlimited amount of other blogs.
Anthony Ellis is also responsible for several innovative Wordpress hacks and plugins, including Auto Social Poster that allows you to submit links to multiple social bookmarking sites automatically.
WP Cloner is a Wordpress plugin, and installing it is as easy as any other Wordpress plugin. It’s obviously a labor of love, and I encountered no weird error message throughout my process of using it.
What you need to do is:
- Install WP Cloner on the source blog
- Enter the admin login and password for all your other blogs
- Select what you want to copy, and click on “Start”
- The cloning report will be emailed to you
- Repeat again as much as necessary!
You can choose to copy:
- Your plugins and it’s settings / data
- Your Wordpress themes
- Your permalinks structure & general settings
- Any static pages on your site, for example you “Contact Us” page
- Your categories, posts and comments
- Your blogroll and links
- Your admin username / data
WARNING: If you’ve previously modified your Wordpress themes for individual blogs, make sure you back it all up as you may overwrite them when using the Wp Cloner plugin.
There are a few other tools in the market to manage multiple Wordpress blog, but these require you to upload / manage multiple sites via an admin interface. In fact Anthony Ellis has a tool called Mass Account Manager that you can also use to maintain multiple Cpanels and mass upload files to your server.
WP Cloner is $127 and comes with an unlimited blog license. This means that you can install the plugin on as many blogs as you own without having to purchase additional licenses.
It’s extremely useful for anyone with a small to medium sized blog network, but if you have just a few Wordpress blogs this may not be absolutely vital for you
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[...] Wordpress Cloner – Clone your plugins, themes and settings from one blog to as many other blogs as you like. Important tool if you manage a network of blogs. [...]
Wow this looks interesting. I run several blogs and this could be a real time saver for me.
Wow, this is very useful, especially for people like me that have a l blogs to handle. Thanks a lot for this and keep them coming. I will surely buy this from your link.
I first found out about Wordpress Cloner from a report I picked up on easily duplicating affiliate sites. I was highly impressed and wanted to go out and buy it, but since I had just gotten back from a vacation to South America, I decided to hold off.
A couple of days of looking for a free solution is what it took me to come up with a simple system.
Using this system, it takes me about 2 minutes to setup a new blog with all the parameters and plugins already installed. Of course this is after a one time install of two pieces of software that make it happen.
Can anyone tell me the features difference between this plugin version and the server-based version (other than price)?
And, does this clone 100% of the Blog or is there still some manual tweaking/editing that is needed?
[...] WordPress Cloner – Clone your WP themes, plugins and setting to hundreds of other blogs [...]