Pulling content from one website into another

  • I have a client that has an existing 200 or so page website built in WordPress. He’s expanding his business into a new city and wants to create a second website using the same custom theme and about 95% of the content from the original site. The other 5% of the pages would be tailored to the new location.

    We could duplicate the site completely, then customize the pages needed for the second location, but I’m trying to see if there’s a way to pull that 95% of the page content from site one into site two… so that any updates to the content would only have to be made once.

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  • Well you would first need to backup your MySQL database by logging in to your hosting account and going to PHPmyAdmin and open up the database. Make sure you are at the structure and check everything and back it up. Now login to FTP, go to WP-Content and themes. Now copy the theme and save it. Now if you want to create a new website with that. Create a new MySQL database and install WordPress. Upload the custom theme to the same directory and activate it through the WordPress dashboard. Now you can delete the stuff you don’t want.

    Or simply export the content from the old site and import it into the new ones. See Tools -> Import/Export.

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    I appreciate the responses, but I’m actually trying to do something else… I want the second website to be pulling most of its content from the first website — live, so if content is updated on the first site, it would also be updated on the second site.

    I’m trying to find out if there’s a way to point both websites to the same database for their content.

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