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oik-clone – clone your WordPress content

oik-clone helps you to selectively clone your content between sites.

Purpose

Clone your WordPress content

Features

Clone complete posts from one site to others including:

  • Taxonomy information
  • Content
  • Post meta data
  • Relationships with other posts
  • Attachments

Features v1.0-beta.0817

Fixes a problem with attachments which were uploaded in a different month to the parent post.

Features v1.0-beta.0726

Provides the “cloned” virtual field

Features v1.0-beta.0601

  • On first clone content that had been manually created on multiple sites the source post is matched to the target post using the post’s slug.

Features v1.0-beta.0511

  • Works when oik-fields is not active on the target
  • Tested up to WordPress 4.2.2 and WordPress Multisite
  • Started internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n)

Features v1.0-beta.0422

Features v0.9 – improved mapping of informal relationships

  • Only maps IDs when in the correct context
  • Maps the oik custom image link if stored as post ID

Features v0.8 – map informal relationships in content

  • Now maps post IDs in content from the source ID to the target ID
  • Maps source domain to target domain in content
  • [cloned] shortcode displays cloning status for a post

This version is being Beta tested on oik-plugins and WP-a2z.org

Features v0.7 – push hierarchical taxonomies

  • Clones hierarchical taxonomies to the target server

This version was Alpha tested on oik-plugins sites

Features v0.6 – clone attachments and media files

  • Clone attachments, passing the media file to the servers

Still not quite ready for beta test. But it is being Alpha tested on some oik-plugins sites.

Features v0.5 – relationship support in post_meta

  • Supports mapping of post IDs in post_meta data.

Not quite ready for beta test. But it is being Alpha tested on some oik-plugins sites.

Features v0.4 – relationships support

  • The client (master / source ) passes an array of known mappings of post IDs for the server ( slave / target ) to use when updating relationship fields.

Features v0.3 – tags support

  • Added capability to clone tags type taxonomies
  • Produces a message to remind you to clone parents before children

Features v0.2 – push

  • Supports WordPress and WordPress Multisite
  • Tested on WordPress 4.2-beta2

Features v0.1 – pull

  • Compares content between source and target ( current ) site
  • Works with any content type except: Revisions, Menu items
  • Provides Import new, Compare and Update actions.
  • Side by side compare of matched posts
  • Supports WordPress and WordPress Multisite
  • Tested on WordPress 4.1-beta2

Extensible

Initially developed for WordPress Multisite the plugin is extensible. This means that we will be able to add functionality such as cloning

  • from WordPress export files (WXR)
  • from external sites using WP-API – the REST API for WordPress
  • to external sites using WP-API

Planned enhancements

Clone on update

Highest priority items for v1.0-beta are:

  • Better handling for media files

Other improvements / fixes

Push cloning

  • Newly cloned content should indicate last update date
  • Better confirmation of success
  • Ability to filter fields which should not be cloned
  • Support additional search and replace logic for content, optional

Pull cloning

  • Provide same content cloning functionality as for push cloning

Clone admin

  • Ability to filter source post types listed
  • Authentication defined per server
  • Clone action on Self page

Limitations

  • Not tested for menus ( nav_menu_item ) or links
  • Currently deletes, then recreates all post meta data on the target post
  • Doesn’t process users
  • Doesn’t process comments
  • Does not detect configuration differences, e.g. different plugins activated, post type and post meta registration differences.
  • Only available for English

Requires

  • oik v2.4-alpha.1112 or higher

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