copy wordpress site to multiple addon domains

  • Not sure if there is an easy way around this, so here goes anyways.
    I have a WP install on my main domain, and it has a custom theme. I would like to apply this same setup with theme, pages, etc to my addon domains. But I want the addon domain to have their own databases as they will have their own content and images. The theme and concept will be the same across all the domains.
    My host says I have to do a fresh install for each one and modify from scratch each time. I kind of think there has to be a better way. Any suggestions out there?

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  • But I want the addon domain to have their own databases as they will have their own content and images.

    You don’t need one database for each add-on domain in the first place. Except for some common administrative and user tables, each sub-blog has 9 tables each. You can go multisite, point new domain name to each subblog via https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/

    Thread Starter acpp

    (@acpp)

    Not sure if that will work. I don’t fully understand mapping dns, etc.
    Let me try to explain better.
    I have 5 sites. first site is say, pets.com I have a custom theme installed and this site is ready to go.
    I also have dogs.com, cats.com, birds.com and horses.com

    They all have their own domains, however, all I would like to do is make them all have the same basic theme and number of pages. If the latter four domains all have images and content exactly like pets.com, I could simply go in to each one and adjust images, content and page names to reflect each site. But each site will be its own site entirely, but part of the family, so to speak.
    I just thought if there was a way to copy entire WP site over to another with theme, pages and settings, it could save me a lot of work on install and customizing each site from scratch.

    Does this change anything or am I back to mu domain mapping in reply above?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    And images are stored separately in per blogs.dir folders ?? so rurally it does just what you want.

    @acpp – your response must have been held in queue for a while, because the last time I checked, I only saw @ipstenu’s post ??

    I just thought if there was a way to copy entire WP site over to another with theme, pages and settings, it could save me a lot of work on install and customizing each site from scratch. Does this change anything or am I back to mu domain mapping in reply above?

    IMO I don’t think you save a lot of work on install when you would still have to download main site’s server files and get copy of database and then upload server files and folders (revising wp-config.php) for next 4 domains and then import database from first site which you would need to revise (change site URL) for each of the 4 domain names.

    You would save a lot of work if you install WordPress once in root, then go multisite. Install following plugins
    – https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/ (for all sites to use same theme, have same settings, etc.)
    – https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/yd-wpmu-sitewide-options/ (fot all plugin options)
    – https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/
    – https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/windstyle-multisite-nav-bar-for-wordpress/ (if you want a special navigation menu for the five sites without hardcoding to theme)

    Your choice. Good luck.

    What mercime said – multisite does exactly what you want.

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