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. 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.

Props to @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 Clone 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/.:

• 1109 — Add support for importing menus
• 1110 — Add support for importing widgets
• 1111 — Add support for importing relevant Customizer settings
• 1112 — Scale to support hundreds of sites
• 1114 — Confirm dialog is displayed when switching sites
• 1115 — Panel is misaligned
• 1116 — Prime mShots cache

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, @harbormark, @chanthaboune, @nvwd, @kovshenin, @rafaehlers, @davidjlaietta, @dimensionmedia, @iandstewart, @miss_jwo, @topher1kenobe, @jenmylo, @georgestephanis, @valeriosza, @jb510, @jleuze, @robertnienhuis, @cheffheid, @dnelle, @danielgcarvalho, @brettshumaker

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