We have a blog for 1 of our brands. Newspaper theme.
Over the years we’ve spent a lot of time tweaking it to meet our requirement.
Now we need to replicate it, exactly as it across other blogs we own.
1. We installed the tagdiv plugins.
2. Activated the license.
3. Found the same Newspaper Pro templates on the other site and marked them as Global.
4. Theme Panel – Exported from the main site, and imported in the other sites.
However to my disappointment, the site does not look anything like the first site, which we’d like to clone.
It seems all the modifications we made in the cloud templates of the first site, are associated to that site only on your servers.
We want to use the same global theme across all our sites. They need to look exactly the same.
Ideally, if we make a change to the cloud template of 1 site, it should automatically update on all sites.
Please advise how we can achieve this.
Hi,
To have a replica website, there are a few possibilities.
1. Use the duplicator plugin (it will need to clean the articles, maybe categories, when the site is set on the new domain, but will be duplicated 1:1).
2. Using the method you did but you need to do more than setting the theme, theme plugins, demo and the theme panel, you ned to import the cloud template and the pages you made. This can be done using the wordpress tools, but the main site should have the same plugins https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/tools-import-and-export/
Alternatively, you can use the copy-paste method: simply copy the cloud template from one site and paste it into a cloud template on the other site.
Thank you!
Can you tell me more about the copy paste method?
Where are the cloud templates stored on the site?
Just to add to my last message, I would like to know precisely where the cloudtemplates are stored.
In the database? In some folder?
To add some context – I actually dont even need the pages, i JUST need the Cloud Templates.
Hi,
The Cloud Templates are stored in the database, but one important thing to ensure is that you are using the same theme plugins on both websites. If, on the second website (the one where you want to import a Cloud Template), you have all the same plugins as on the main one, having additional theme plugins is not a problem. However, if it’s the other way around, it’s possible that the template will not look the same.
If you only need the Cloud Templates and want to import everything related to them, the best solution is to use the WordPress Import/Export tool and export only the Cloud Templates.
For the copy-paste method, go to Newspaper > Cloud Templates on the main domain. For example, if you want to copy a header, edit it, hover over the three dots, and click Edit: https://i.imgur.com/FUHR4iN.png
Then copy all the content. Next, go to the new website, open Cloud Templates, and make sure you paste the content into the correct template type. You can either edit an existing template and replace its code with the copied one, or import a Cloud Template (even a blank one) and replace its code with the copied content.
Just make sure that if you copy a Cloud Header, you paste it into a Cloud Header template, and if it’s a Single template, you paste it into a Single template.
Thank you!
