About this plugin
NS Cloner is a WordPress site cloner and site duplicator built for WordPress Multisite networks. It lets you clone an existing multisite subsite into a new site with the same content, media, theme settings, plugin settings, menus, widgets, posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, and site configuration.
Instead of rebuilding the same WordPress site setup manually, NS Cloner copies a fully configured source site and creates a new duplicate site inside your multisite network. It automatically updates the new site name, title, URLs, and other background references so the cloned site works like a clean, properly configured WordPress site.
NS Cloner is ideal for developers, agencies, designers, schools, franchises, membership organizations, SaaS-style WordPress platforms, and teams that need to duplicate WordPress multisite subsites quickly and reliably.
Important: the free version of NS Cloner is for WordPress Multisite only. It works from the WordPress Network Admin dashboard. If you need to clone a single WordPress site, clone between single-site and multisite installs, or copy a site to a remote WordPress install, WP Site Cloner Pro adds those capabilities.
What NS Cloner Does
NS Cloner helps you:
- Clone a WordPress Multisite subsite
- Duplicate a WordPress site inside a multisite network
- Copy an existing site setup into a new site
- Create staging, testing, template, regional, client, or member sites
- Save time when building multiple similar WordPress sites
- Preserve theme settings, plugin settings, content, media, menus, widgets, and site options
- Avoid repetitive manual setup across a multisite network
Typical Workflow
- Set up a source site exactly the way you want future sites to start.
- Go to Network Admin > NS Cloner.
- Choose the existing multisite subsite you want to clone.
- Enter the new site URL and title.
- Click clone.
NS Cloner handles the site duplication process in the background and creates a fully copied site inside your WordPress Multisite network.
Primary Use Cases
- Agencies and developers cloning baseline client sites
- Multisite networks that need repeatable site templates
- Designers testing multiple layout or theme variations
- Teams creating staging or QA copies of existing sites
- Organizations creating regional, chapter, location, school, member, or affiliate sites
- WordPress platform owners spinning up new subsites from a preconfigured template
- Multisite administrators replacing slow manual setup with one-click site duplication
Core Features
- Clone an entire WordPress Multisite subsite in seconds
- Copy posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, and comments
- Copy uploaded media files and associated data
- Copy widgets, menus, theme settings, plugin settings, and WordPress options
- Works with subdomain and subdirectory multisite networks
- Background cloning process helps avoid timeouts on large sites
- Close your browser tab without interrupting the clone
- Live progress view while cloning
- Automatic URL replacement and background updates
- Advanced validation and preemptive issue detection
- Robust process logging for troubleshooting
- Developer-friendly cloning pipeline with hooks
- Translation ready
WP Site Cloner Pro
For more advanced WordPress cloning, WP Site Cloner Pro adds support for single-site cloning, remote site cloning, WP-CLI cloning, custom search and replace, database table control, user cloning, and saved cloning presets.
Pro features include:
- Teleport: clone a subsite to a remote network or move an entire multisite network
- Single Site: clone standard WordPress sites, not just multisite subsites
- WP-CLI Addon: copy sites from the command line
- Search & Replace: run custom search and replace on cloned content
- Table Manager: control exactly which database tables are cloned
- Users Cloning: clone users and permissions or create new users for cloned sites
- Presets: save common cloning settings for repeatable site duplication workflows