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Replicate production websites from WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) export files

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# WP Site Replicator

**Quickly create replicas of large production websites from WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) export files.**

This command relies on writing directly to the WP database via WP DB API so both post and term tables should be empty.

## Install

Install it as a [WP CLI package](https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/package/install/):

wp package install wpsh/wp-cli-replicator

## Usage

### Export Content

Export content from the source site:

1. Use the [WordPress Importer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/) plugin or the [`wp export` command](https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/export/) to export the site content.

2. Use the [WP Options Importer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/options-importer/) plugin to export the site options. The output should be a single `options.json` file.

### Prepare Import

1. Parse the exported [WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR](https://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Export_Screen) into JSON files for site users, terms and posts:

wp replicator parse-wxr path/to/wxr/directory

where `path/to/wxr/directory` is the path to the directory with all the XML files.

All XML files `path/to/wxr/files/*.xml` are parsed and stored in the `path/to/wxr/directory/json` directory -- `users.json`, `terms.json` and `posts-*.json`.

### Import Content

Please note that you may need to specify `--url` for all commands if you're running WordPress multisite.

1. Empty the site content where you want to import the content:

wp site empty --yes

2. Import options:

wp replicator import-options "path/to/options.json"

where `path/to/options.json` is the path to the exported options.

3. Import users:

wp replicator import-users "path/to/users.json"

where `path/to/users.json` is the path the user list generated from the XML export.

All existing users with the same login name will be deleted and new users created with a random password because WordPress export doesn't include the passwords. All users will need to reset their passwords. Use `wp user update USERNAME --user_pass="YOURNEWPASSWORD"` to update a password for a specific user.

4. Import taxonomies and terms:

wp replicator import-terms "path/to/terms.json"

where `path/to/terms.json` is the path the term list generated from the XML export.

5. Import posts:

wp replicator import-posts "path/to/json"

where `path/to/json` is the path to the directory with all `post-*.json` files.

## Credits

Created by [Kaspars Dambis](https://kaspars.net).

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