Title: Quick and simple!
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# Quick and simple!

 *  [mtarr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtarr/)
 * (@mtarr)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-and-simple-29/)
 * Having read how to use a different recommended package, and failed to understand
   half of the information, I thought I’d give WP Clone a try. I created a fresh
   WP installation, updated it to WP4.6, installed WP Clone, copied in the URL for
   the backup on the existing site, and three minutes later I had a brand new site.
   Exactly the same theme, content and settings as the development site, but in 
   the intended new location. Simples!
 * Be aware that you have to log on again when you’re asked by WP Clone to update
   permalinks, and that log-in has to be the one used on your old site, _not_ the
   one given by any automated installer for the new site, as WP Clone will have 
   cloned and updated the user list.
 * And of course you have to remove the default themes, sample page, and post that
   any new WordPress installation creates.

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