Title: Site Cloner v1 is now available
Author: Ian Dunn
Published: July 9, 2015
Last modified: June 22, 2016

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/) [Ian Dunn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/)
3:32 pm _on_ July 9, 2015     
Tags: [Improving WordCamp.org ( 17 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/improving-wordcamp-org/),
[official websites ( 44 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/official-websites/),
[wordcamp.org ( 34 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wordcamp-org/)   

# Site Cloner v1 is now available

The first tangible outcome of the Improving WordCamp.org project is now available.
The Site Cloner lets you browse through screenshots of other WordCampWordCamp WordCamps
are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress.
They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach 
one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. [Learn more](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/).
sites, and then easily copy the custom CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style
sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. from them, 
so that you don’t have to start a new site from scratch.

[⌊Screenshot of Site Cloner⌉⌊Screenshot of Site Cloner⌉[

Props to [@ryelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/) for building the prototype
🙂

If you’d like to check if out, just open up the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built 
into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview
and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. on your site and click on the
C_lone Another WordCamp_ panel. Just be sure to not click the _Save_ button, though,
unless you actually want to switch your theme and reset your CSS 🙂

It’s the first version, so there are some **known bugs** and **missing features**.
If you’d like to help out with those, check out these issues on MetaMeta Meta is
a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that
works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. TracTrac
Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests 
much like GitHub.[https://core.trac.wordpress.org/](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/).:

 * [1109 — Add support for importing menus](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1109)
 * [1110 — Add support for importing widgets](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1110)
 * [1111 — Add support for importing relevant Customizer settings](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1111)
 * [1112 — Scale to support hundreds of sites](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1112)
 * [1114 — Confirm dialog is displayed when switching sites](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1114)
 * [1115 — Panel is misaligned](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1115)
 * [1116 — Prime mShots cache](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1116)

It’s also important to keep in mind that there will always be some CSS that is specific
to each site; maybe it references a page ID, or uses a background image with the
original Camp’s logo, etc. So, you’ll still need to do some work to make the CSS
fit your site, but this should get you 90% of the way there.

 

Pinging the people who took part in the previous discussions to make sure they don’t
miss the post: [@ryelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/), [@harbormark](https://profiles.wordpress.org/harbormark/),
[@chanthaboune](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/), [@nvwd](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nvwd/),
[@kovshenin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kovshenin/), [@rafaehlers](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rafaehlers/),
[@davidjlaietta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidjlaietta/), [@dimensionmedia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimensionmedia/),
[@iandstewart](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandstewart/), [@miss_jwo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miss_jwo/),
[@topher1kenobe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/), [@jenmylo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/),
[@georgestephanis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/georgestephanis/), [@valeriosza](https://profiles.wordpress.org/valeriosza/),
[@jb510](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jb510/), [@jleuze](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jleuze/),
[@robertnienhuis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/robertnienhuis/), [@cheffheid](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cheffheid/),
[@dnelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dnelle/), [@danielgcarvalho](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielgcarvalho/),
[@brettshumaker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brettshumaker/)

[#improving-wordcamp-org](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/improving-wordcamp-org/),
[#official-websites](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/official-websites/),
[#wordcamp-org](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wordcamp-org/)

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 1.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2594f2ca9fd126c7141235f6a05e83a631d248ec240479850c08ce07be0d1a30?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 2.   [Karl Hudson Phillips](https://profiles.wordpress.org/harbormark/)  3:34 pm _on_
     July 9, 2015
 3.  Excited to give this a spin later today
 4.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/43079e9f63dcc2eb22b375414f6b10d63294db0ed693c46781d287042a293c2c?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 5.   [Tracy Levesque](https://profiles.wordpress.org/liljimmi/)  3:47 pm _on_ July
     9, 2015
 6.  This is so cool! Thanks, [@ryelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/) !
 7.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/30656a03ae903df0e8d3802b9f73d2cb0f7269f2cc9a81e21f175ca1d19ef164?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 8.   [Jeffrey de Wit](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cheffheid/)  3:48 pm _on_ July
     9, 2015
 9.  That’s really cool. Checking that out shortly. 🙂
 10. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1dba75a903be8eb13bae6f961d81a99e5c76d5ca8c327a18bc25e96df2417b99?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 11.  [Hugh Lashbrooke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/)  3:52 pm _on_ 
     July 9, 2015
 12. Stoked! 🙂
 13. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d860975d8bd4b166268bba8da8c1ea0e861a7d7f4ef0aee52fa727fc69e12b2?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 14.  [Kelly Dwan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/)  3:53 pm _on_ July 9, 2015
 15. Thanks [@iandunn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/) for cleaning this up
     and pushing it! I’m excited to see it used 🙂
 16. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/34348745bf8681bb44b87b5d39cbceefb2416e0d129f69d8aa096c7fcf617518?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 17.  [judiknight](https://profiles.wordpress.org/judiknight/)  5:26 pm _on_ July 9,
     2015
 18. Oh that is such a great idea. Thanks.
 19. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2f3047dd0ab8cff7995f253c4190f0221dec5bb1d8d376d1c5f5746353521abf?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 20.  [Carrie Dils](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cdils/)  5:37 pm _on_ July 9, 2015
 21. Big ole +1 on this
 22. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5c3f2d93d1a7622578bf02f19b91bce32e642cf2962e04ab559fbc0ae333359?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 23.  [Andrea Middleton](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andreamiddleton/)  6:17 pm 
     _on_ July 9, 2015
 24. Thank you to [@ryelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/) and [@iandunn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/)
     for your hard work on this! I’m excited to see this launch. 🙂
 25. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dad360d6d33cc359ccc77beb0de91ea2ac1c3ccaf28550b1e2727d5f6127ad00?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 26.  [Petya Raykovska](https://profiles.wordpress.org/petya/)  6:47 pm _on_ July 9,
     2015
 27. Have no words to express how happy this makes me 🙂 Thank you so much [@ryelle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryelle/),
     [@iandunn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/) and comm team!
 28. Amazing <3
 29. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/120b2dbc332ea0daf46d432e7d1fd3bf9a2b98955f9bad07dfd3ff8eb0fdfc87?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 30.  [Stephen Edgar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netweb/)  10:24 pm _on_ July 9,
     2015
 31. This is pretty cool… Now all I need is a WordCamp.org site 😉
 32. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/55f2188ca0c42f9f62b562fbf9747c54f088782ce3af48cf6db567bc53428ac0?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 33.  [00Sleepy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/00sleepy/)  11:08 pm _on_ July 9, 2015
 34. Cool and I love the screenshot above with #WCCGN on first place 😀
 35. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e286b52ca6080c7457f0e382fa70e3f4e8780c2df5891b4c3161eeba14c08117?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 36.  [savione](https://profiles.wordpress.org/savione/)  12:12 pm _on_ July 10, 2015
 37. This is soo cool. Thank you!
 38. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/47cd7962239f71e643b9b00f5eae21c1a4a33793fe2206946dbbabdc34ee93d7?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 39.  [Valerio Souza](https://profiles.wordpress.org/valeriosza/)  1:40 pm _on_ July
     13, 2015
 40. This is beautiful
 41. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5022aefae4facbf0d0992d39e0c5c109b942122c628aff8ad80908a02692bbdf?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 42.  [Jenny](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miss_jwo/)  11:17 am _on_ July 14, 2015
 43. Awesome!
 44. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/35e9e82abf584c852a776dc68d7253feb1efe77f87fd87e0fd7943b3b7a959e4?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 45.  [gotwickdotcom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gotwickdotcom/)  11:25 pm _on_
     November 17, 2015
 46. Is this still a thing? I don’t see that panel, am I in the wrong area?
 47.  * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5783a2d9b93f04f6d0a1ddabddcfd71f15136d7eaea7a87f9962d3f93f780224?
        s=32&d=mm&r=g)
      *  [Ian Dunn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn/)  11:50 pm _on_ November
        17, 2015
      * Yeah, it’s still running on WordCamp.org. I don’t see an admin role for you
        on any WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences
        covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the
        WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned
        throughout the year and share the joy. [Learn more](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/).
        site, though. Would it be under a different username?
 48. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/35e9e82abf584c852a776dc68d7253feb1efe77f87fd87e0fd7943b3b7a959e4?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 49.  [gotwickdotcom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gotwickdotcom/)  4:00 pm _on_ 
     November 18, 2015
 50. Sorry, didn’t read carefully, I thought it was an update for WordPress. My bad!

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