Cloning the Education Theme website

[eodisho]

Hi,

We are a school with two campuses (Shamkir and Ganje). We are using the Education Pro Theme.

We would like the websites for both campuses to have the same look and feel, except the content will be different.

I have created the Shamkir's sub-domain, website pages, and menus using Cpanel and WordPress. I don't want to go through the process of recreating the website pages and menus for the second campus.

How do I clone the Shamkir website and assign it to Ganje's sub-domain?

http://www.shamkir.bakuoxfordschool.com/

[Badlywired]

A plugin called 'Duplicator' will allow you to, well, duplicate.

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[eodisho]

Thank you Badlywired for the lead.

I will definitely use this plugin. The only issue is that we have a legacy main website (www.bakuoxfordschool.com) which is not a WordPress website and I don't want to damage it. I am worried that the Duplicator software will rewrite the .htaccess file and in the process will render the main website inaccessible. Is this possible?

I am a beginner and I don’t want to mess things up.

Thanks again,
Ed

[Badlywired]

Well it will write to the directory you set it up in so if you put the duplicator files in a sub directory you should be OK..

I assume you would as matter of course take a full backup first anyway, just in case you do make mistakes you can recover it.

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[eodisho]

Thank you Badlywired for taking you time to explain it to me. I will give the duplicator a try this weekend.

As advised, I will do a fresh backup.

Cheers,
Ed

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