Copy a site

As a website owner, you can clone your entire WordPress.com site, including posts, pages, themes, plugins, and uploads, to create a new site. This guide will show you how to create a copy of your WordPress.com website.

This feature is available on plugin-enabled sites with our WordPress.com Personal, Premium, Business, and Commerce plans. If your site has one of these plans, make sure to activate it. For sites on the free plan, upgrade your plan to access this feature.

• For security purposes, only the site owner can copy a website. Other administrators aren’t able to copy a site.
• The process creates a new site, for which you’ll be prompted to purchase a new plan.
  • If you wish to create a duplicate site for testing purposes only, use a staging site which does not require an additional purchase.
  • If you want to copy a WordPress.com site to another existing WordPress.com site, use the instructions in our migrate a website to WordPress.com guide.

To make a copy of your website, follow these steps:

1. Visit your hosting dashboard.
2. Click the title of the eligible site you wish to copy:

3. In the left sidebar, select Settings.
4. Under the Actions section, click the Duplicate button to duplicate the site.
   • If the option is not visible, the site is not yet eligible to be copied.

5. Select a domain for your new site.
   • If you are not ready to decide on a domain, type a name for your site and pick the free address option that will appear in the list.
   • If you want to copy your site to an existing WordPress.com site, use the instructions in our Migrate a Website to WordPress.com guide.
6. On the checkout screen, purchase the new hosting plan for the new site. The cloning process will begin:

You can navigate away from the window. You will receive an email when your new site is ready.

The following site-specific data is automatically copied to your new site:

• Posts
• Pages
• Themes
• Plugins
• Media Uploads
• Users
• Configuration options, API keys, and any database data stored with your site.

The following WordPress.com-specific data is not copied to your new site because these features are site-specific:

• Subscribers and likes
• Attached SSH keys

Although subscribers can be migrated, it will not happen by default. A subscriber has subscribed to a specific site, so they are not copied to your new site. 

Your newly copied site is completely decoupled from the original site, so any changes to one won’t impact the other.

All WooCommerce data in the database will be copied to the new site, which may include customers, products, orders, or any other WooCommerce-related information stored in the database. Any payment gateway will remain in “Live” mode if enabled.