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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[NS Cloner - Site Cloner and Multisite Duplicator] Clone a site with another URL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-a-site-with-another-url/)
 *  Thread Starter [elthomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elthomas/)
 * (@elthomas)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-a-site-with-another-url/#post-9022190)
 * Hello,
 * thank you for the detailed answer. It makes sense and it helps!
 * Yes, I use domain mapping, it is correct. I don’t use a domain mapping plugging
   because now, this functionality is a native feature in WordPress ([codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Multisite_Domain_Mapping](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Multisite_Domain_Mapping)).
 * I use relative URL in the content of the posts/pages of my template site (the
   one I need to clone). However, in the theme customizer, relative URLs can’t be
   used (for example, to select the header image of the theme, I can only select
   an image in the theme customizer but I can’t modify the URL => it’s not possible
   to use relative URL here). It is this second point that creates broken url in
   my “cloning” process.
 * I understand as well that the plugin can create only subdomain website, since
   WordPress as well doesn’t allow to create directly a website with a different
   domain. And I understand that modifying that isn’t a good idea 😉
    By default,
   the process to create a website with domain mapping in WordPress is:
    1. Create a subdomain website
    2. Change the Site Address to put the final domain
 * If the new site is still empty at point 2 (no theme customization), changing 
   the Site Address doesn’t broke anything.
 * My problem is that my template site has its theme customzed and then, uses absolute
   URL.
 * However, I have thought to a solution to avoid broken links in the theme customization
   data of my template site.
    I will simply go in the database to edit there the
   theme customization saved data and change absolute URL by relative URL. And that’s
   it! I will have a a template site without absolute URL, cleaned to be cloned 
   🙂
 * Cheers!

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