How do I duplicate a site on Faaaster?

From the site's Tools tab, in the Backup & migration section, the Clone row duplicates the site to start a new project. Click Clone to start the operation.

The interface describes the feature like this: "Create a new site from the current one."

Prerequisite — cloning is reserved for the organization's owner and admins. For other roles, the Clone button is grayed out.

Duplicate

1. Open the site you want to duplicate.
2. Go to the Tools tab.
3. In the Backup & migration section, find the Clone row.
4. Click Clone.

What happens next

Clicking Clone takes you to the new site creation flow, with the original site already selected as the template. There you choose its name, its address and its plan, just like any new site.

The clone is therefore a site in its own right, with its own address and its own subscription — it isn't free and shares nothing with the original.

What the clone copies

The entire disk is duplicated: site files, plugins, themes, uploaded content and database. The clone therefore starts in a state identical to the original.

Two things are reset:

• The WordPress administrator — the clone gets its own administrator account, separate from the original site's;
• The caches — they're purged, otherwise the template's pages would still display with the old address.

The original site's address is rewritten in the clone's database: every occurrence of the template's main address — the one in its WordPress settings — is replaced with the clone's address.

⚠️ Only the template's main address is replaced. If its content hard-codes other addresses (an old domain, a secondary domain), fix them with wp search-replace over SSH once the clone is created.

The original site's backups aren't carried over: the clone starts with its own history.

How long does it take?

Duplicating is a site creation: allow a few minutes while the environment gets ready. The status shows Starting up… before showing Online.

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Updated on: 10/03/2026