Multisite Cloner
When creating a new blog on WordPress Multisite, copies all the posts, settings and files, from a selected blog into the new one.
4.7(29 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 9 years agoAs of April 2026, Multisite Cloner is a WordPress copy plugin with 100 active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 29 reviews. It has been downloaded 35K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Yoast Duplicate Post.
4.7/529 reviews
100active installs
35K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
In WordPress Multisite, new sites get a boring default template, without any custom settings or starter content.
This plugin allows you to select a specific blog on your network, a “master” one, that will be cloned every time a new blog is created.
In this way, new blogs will contain all posts, uploads, theme settings and plugin options from the master blog.
How does it work?
- It uses MySQL
INSERT INTO ... SELECTto copy every table from the “master” blog into the new one. This is fast! - Then it does a search and replace on the new blog’s tables, to replace the old URL with the new one.
This is done in a way that respects serialized arrays, so your plugin’s settings will be preserved.
(We used a heavily trimmed down version of Interconnect/IT’s Sea…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.729 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
0.2.2.1
- Fixed syntax error introduced in 0.2.2. (Props to @infotexsupport for reporting this.)
- Settings dropdown: include site path, set max-width.
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