Title: Usage
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Usage

 *  Resolved [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-10/)
 * I read”If you consider yourself a WordPress newbie please seek assistance from
   your system administrator when using this plugin. Please do not attempt to use
   the plugin if you’re new to WordPress or have a limited technical background.”
 * But looking at video it seems straight forward. IS IT? before i go jumping in
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)

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 *  Thread Starter [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-10/#post-4032596)
 * UPDATE> having spoken to hosting company they said raise a ticket and they will
   move it, does that sound right, i assume they understand all that is involved?
 *  Thread Starter [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-10/#post-4032618)
 * reading a bit more, it won’t actually touch current install, so if i set new 
   domain up, create a database and have a empty route directory in new domain ,
   upload installer to new domain and run.
 * Or does it actually remove everything from old site?
 * Old site will still be intact and functioning so temporarily add a robots block
   on new site until fully tested?
 *  Thread Starter [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-10/#post-4032621)
 * running a local copy of wp now but just want to make sure nothing on original
   site gets removed?
 *  Thread Starter [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-10/#post-4032622)
 * well works locally so looks good!!!
 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-10/#post-4032630)
 * Hey mrppp,
 * To answer your original question…
 * > But looking at video it seems straight forward. IS IT? before i go jumping 
   > in…
 * I have tried to make it as simple as I possibly can. However there are still 
   users who don’t know concepts like connecting to a database and in some cases
   what a database is, which is something I just can’t teach everyone. These same
   users try to use the plugin anyways, and then when they don’t understand something
   they put in a one star vote because they didn’t really get it…
 * Looks like you got your other questions answered…
 * Thanks for posting your results!

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