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NS Cloner – Site Copier

v4.4.7.5
by Never Settle · 4.7 (270 reviews)

The NS Cloner saves multisite admins and developers TONS of time by cloning existing sites in a multisite network to a completely new site in a few se …

8K+ active installs Updated Feb 05, 2025 Tested to 6.7.2 Requires PHP 7.0
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About NS Cloner – Site Copier

The NS Cloner is a plugin for WordPress Multisite that allows you to easily and quickly clone existing sites on your network. It preserves all the settings, content, and configurations of the original site and makes intelligent replacements to ensure the new site works the same way. It's perfect for developers, designers, teams, organizations, and affiliates who want to save time and effort in creating new sites.

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Changelog

4.4.7.5 – 2024.11.25

  • Fix: Text domain loading

4.4.7.4 – 2024.11.13

  • Fix: Correct theme set on the cloned site from the source site
  • Fix: PHP notices

4.4.7.3 – 2024.10.17

  • Cron subsite fixes
  • Other improvements.

4.4.7.2 – 2024.08.28

  • Cron code execution fix

4.4.7.1 – 2024.08.27

  • Code improvements

4.4.7 – 2024.08.20

  • Fix PHP notices and other code improvements

4.4.6 – 2024.08.08

  • Better handling of scheduled actions.
  • Code improvements.

4.4.5 – 2024.06.20

  • Add hooks to bypass immediate cloning in the admin ajax action.
  • Fix initial form setting option loading. Hide those that are not for current clone option.

4.4.4 – 2024.05.13

  • Code updates and other improvements.

4.4.2 – 2024.01.30

  • Enhancement: Improved locale loading.
  • Fix: PHP notices.

4.4.1 – 2024.01.25

  • New: Introduce new function ns_cloner_perform_clone to make it easier to perform cloning from other plugins.
  • Enhancement: Improved checks for file loading.
  • Fix: PHP notices.

4.4 – 2023.11.20

  • New: Updated the admin area for a more modern experience.
  • Enhancement: Code improvements.

4.3.3 – 2023.08.23

  • Enhancement: Better loading of cloner core files for frontend
  • Fix: Clone templates

4.3.2 – 2023.08.15

  • Fix: Fix issues with Background process class in initializing clone

4.3.1 – 2023.08.11

  • Fix vendor paths

4.3 – 2023.08.11

  • Enhancement: Better dependency management
  • Enhancement: Ability to override and define own custom logs location. Use NS_CLONER_LOG_DIR to define a custom log directory. Use NS_CLONER_LOG_URL to define a custom log url.
  • Fix: PHP Compatibility with Background process manager
  • Fix: PHP Notices

4.2.2.2 – 2023.05.09

  • Fix critical php error

4.2.2.1 – 2022.12.19

  • Remove unnecessary vendor files

4.2.2 – 2022.12.16

  • Fix table constraint issue when cloning
  • Update plugin url

4.2.1 – 2022.09.19

  • Fix inaccurate memory limit warning
  • Fix default cloning mode selection
  • Remove unnecessary vendor files

4.2.0 – 2022.08.25

  • Improve cache flushing logic
  • Improve internal coding standards
  • Fix handling for undefined classes in serialized values

4.1.9.3 – 2022.01.06

  • Optimize with reduction of unnecessary all hook when not cloning

4.1.9.2 – 2022.01.03

  • Fix compatibility issue with WP Simple Pay

4.1.9.1 – 2021.12.23

  • Optimize performance by preventing initialization for non-admin requests
  • Fix unnecessary object cache flushes and add filter to disable entirely

4.1.8 – 2021.09.30

  • Optimize WP site list for networks with large numbers of sites
  • Add proactive resolution attempts for duplicate option keys during cloning
  • Fix misc. other plugin compatibility issues

4.1.7 – 2021.09.02

  • Apply styling tweaks to admin interface
  • Fix bug with networks where the root/main blog ID is not equal to 1
  • Fix bug with “Delete All Plugin Data” reset button not working fully
  • Fix compatibility issue with Collisimo Shipping Methods plugin

4.1.6 – 2021.05.31

  • Update composer dependencies for PHP 8 compatibility

4.1.5.3 – 2021.02.10

  • Fix compatibility error with SEO by Rank Math Pro

4.1.5.2 – 2021.02.03

  • Fix bug with new site title not being applied after cloning

4.1.5.1 – 2021.02.02

  • Fix slug change that broke compatibility with pro version

4.1.5 – 2021.01.31

  • Add wp_cache_flush() call to resolve object caching issues
  • Add option to clear plugin data for stuck processes
  • Update internationalization to follow WP recommendations
  • Fix misc. warnings, typos

4.1.4 – 2020.12.30

  • Fix visibility error on magic wakeup method
  • Fix cache clearing mechanism for WP Engine sites
  • Fix conflict with Woo Discount Rules

4.1.3 – 2020.11.17

  • Add new options to help avoid database view / constraint errors
  • Make compatible with pro SFTP transfer feature
  • Fix inefficient database calls, unresponsive analytics setting UI

4.1.0 – 2020.09.25

  • Add productivity statistics capture and analytics
  • Fix jQuery 1.8 compatibility, debug notices, more misc. bugfixes

4.0.9 – 2020.06.15

  • Add new performance control options
  • Simplify and improve new site URL validation
  • Fix handling for memory limit of -1
  • Fix compatibility issue with Yoast WP SEO
  • Fix other bugs with stalled clone recovery, notices from options table, etc.

4.0.8 – 2020.06.11

  • Add automatic cache flush after cloning
  • Add new filters for performance tweaking and search/replace control
  • Fix upload_path replacement for root site with hardcoded upload_path
  • Fix sites with non-latin chars in site title being unavailable for cloning
  • Fix other bugs with failed finishes, database prefix irregularities, etc.

4.0.7 – 2020.01.30

  • Fix non-prefixed custom tables being included in root site clone
  • Fix private/public blog property not being reflected on cloned sites

4.0.6 – 2020.01.13

  • Update admin styles for WP 5.3 UI changes
  • Add new recovery capability for stalled cloning processes
  • Fix bugs with serialized search/replace updates, unnecessary sitemeta cloning

4.0.5 – 2019.10.17

  • Enable number-only site names
  • Add automatic cache-flush at end of cloning for WPEngine sites
  • Fix memory/time overload when queueing very large tables
  • Fix misc. plugin compatibility issues

4.0.4 – 2019.09.02

  • Fix database handling for null values
  • Fix fatal site creation error in pre-5.1 WordPress
  • Fix error on servers that don’t allow multiple SQL statements in one query
  • Fix misc other bugs and plugin compatibility issues

4.0.3 – 2019.08.19

  • Fix missing rows due to lost insert or incorrect row query
  • Fix max_allowed_packet database error

4.0.2 – 2019.08.15

  • Fix timing conflicts for cleanup tasks.
  • Fix issue where process would keep running after manually cancelling.
  • Rewrite row processing class for much better performance and fewer queries.
  • Add fallback AJAX process dispatching for environments where background requests stall.
  • Add queue batching for large tables.
  • Improve debug logging.

4.0.1 – 2019.07.26

  • Fix lock timing on background processes to prevent frozen or conflicting processes.
  • Fix handling for SQL views – exclude from table cloning and create at end instead.
  • Fix empty target site url caused by object caching on some servers.

4.0.0 – 2019.07.22

  • Release all new rebuilt V4.

Pre V4.0 – see changelog.txt

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