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 sites with the WordPress.com Business plan with hosting features activated, or the Commerce plan.
• For security purposes, only the site owner can copy a website. Other administrators aren’t able to copy a site.
• The process will create a new site, for which you will be prompted to purchase a new Business or Commerce plan (depending on which plan the site you’re copying has.)
  • 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. Log into your WordPress.com account and visit your Sites list by clicking the “W” logo at the top left.
2. Click the three dots (⋮) next to an eligible site.
3. Choose the “Copy site” option.
   • If the option is not visible, the site is not yet eligible to be copied.

4. 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.
5. 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.