NS Cloner – Site Copier

NS Cloner – Site Copier

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 …
Rating:
4.7
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Active Installations:
8000+
Last Updated:
Feb 05, 2025
WordPress Version:
5.0 or higher
Tested up to:
6.7.2

Fast, Easy Cloning

Clone sites in seconds

The NS Cloner allows you to clone any site on your WordPress multisite network quickly and easily. With just one click, you can create a new site that is identical to the original, including themes, plugins, content, and settings.

Seamless Site Duplication

Preserve everything with intelligent replacements

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

Copies everything including custom posts

By James Wilmans (jameswilmans) on November 28, 2024

I rarely leave reviews but this plugin just saved me hours and hours of manual database updates and migrations. It copied absolutely everything, including custom post types and meta of an extremely irritating plugin that I'm using. Many thanks to the devs, this is a brilliant plugin.

Awesome and FREE plugin!

By cauthier72 on May 31, 2024

There were many plugins that required money to 'unlock' this feature, so it's a great that this did the job and was FREE! Perfect for my Multi-site! :D

Great plugin!

By Adrián Dura Musat (admusat) on April 22, 2024

The best for multisite WP.

Nice!

By michaelkazda on February 25, 2024

Nice!

Perfect Functionality and Performance

By vasilis4sar on February 6, 2024

It does exactly what it says, nothing less nothing more.
Flawless!
Well done!

Just Aowsome plugin.

By Sweet Hasan (sweethasan) on January 27, 2024

Just Aowsome plugin. Many blessings and best wishes for this plugin developer.

Updated & uprated review: beware caching, but this can bypass a lot of pain

By jottevanger on September 18, 2023

[This review replaces one entitled "Way too flaky"]

After great initial experiences I started to have great trouble with this plugin. Having worked things through with the support desk we eventually identified that my worst problems were resolved by CHECKING the option to clear the object cache when cloning. The symptoms I experienced were with settings, content (pages or media), or activated plugins or themes not copying to the new site when doing a standard clone. Should you find this happening, tick that "Flush object cache after cloning" box near the bottom of the settings and see how you go. I think the UI should explain that this option can be used if cloning behaviour is erratic.

Another problem persists, which is the UI misbehaving when using (up to date) Firefox - behaviour in Chrome is correct. In FF, the form for defining your clone shows a lot of elements that do not apply to the "standard clone" that is selected when the form loads. They will be validated, so you cannot make a standard clone without first selecting another type of operation and reselecting standard, at which point the correct form elements display. If this can be resolved I can happily award five stars, because this plugin saves an awful lot of pain when it behaves correctly!

Latest version didn't work

By bluenomad on August 18, 2023

The latest version created the default WP tables but didn't copy any data or files.

I had to roll back to v4.2.2.2 in order to clone my site.

Kudos to all you amazing developers

By eliterust on July 22, 2023

How good is opensource and the developers that allow people like me to dare to dream. Thankyou all I donate and buy plugins and give ratings as my contribution. Ubuntu "I am because of who we all are".

This a great plugin and top of the list in my tool kit

Great free plugin for multisite replication

By jjcarballo on July 13, 2023

Thanks for a great free plugin and Team.

Perfect copy of the root site to multiple subdomains

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