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  fleickly · Member · Jan 3, 2023 at 4:12 pm

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  I have a site (circa 2012) that I want to improve upon, but not alter what is already there. As I start these courses, can I create a second site to learn with, to experiment with? Would that be a viable approach? If the second site proves to be ‘better’ than the old one, can they be merged?

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 5, 2023 at 7:36 pm

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  Hey there,

  As I start these courses, can I create a second site to learn with, to experiment with? Would that be a viable approach?

  Sure thing. You can even export the content from your existing site into your test & tinkering site. Here’s how to export the content:
  https://wordpress.com/support/export/
  
  And here’s how to import it into the new site.
  https://wordpress.com/support/import/

  You would be exporting and importing content only.

  If the second site proves to be ‘better’ than the old one, can they be merged?

  This part gets a little bit trickier. If you want to keep the same site name and it’s a free address, you’d basically need to copy the changes to the older free site. It’s a little work, but certainly not impossible.

  If you have a custom domain with a paid plan, we can pretty easily transfer it from one site to the other fairly quickly, so it would just be a matter of gathering up any new posts and content from the old site, and copying them to the new one.

  Let us know if you have more questions on this!