Title: Clone Has Zero Posts Last modified: January 16, 2023 --- # Clone Has Zero Posts * Resolved [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/) * (@wpbroken2much) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-has-zero-posts/) * I cloned a site today with over 20,000 posts but there are zero posts in the new posts table. * UPDATE: I’ve discovered to my horror that the cloning process was not complete when the little loading bar reached the far right and froze. Turns out there was a long copying process about to begin which began after I went into WP Migrate and replaced the temporary subdomain with the new site’s, changed the domain cookie so that the new domain would work, and had already logged back in. * I don’t see any way to fix this but to delete the new site and start over. In the future, please update your plugin so that the first loading bar does not get stuck when it gets to the right. This makes people think the cloning process is done but that your plugin just froze when in fact in a few minutes something else will load. - This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/). - This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/). Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/) * (@wpbroken2much) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-has-zero-posts/#post-16379385) * It has been at least five minutes since your plugin first displayed this progress. As you can see the loader is complete but the little circle gif is still moving in a circle. There needs to be some feedback to the user know that the plugin is getting ready for a next step. Otherwise the natural reaction of the user will be that your plugin is frozen, so they will close the window and work on other thing only to find out that the cloning process did not finish. * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.ibb.co/hYFrKqc/nscloner.jpg?ssl=1) - This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/). * Thread Starter [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/) * (@wpbroken2much) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-has-zero-posts/#post-16379393) * We have passed the 10 minute mark and the screen is the same. Do you have a CLI option so that I don’t have to worry about using a browser based UI? * Thread Starter [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/) * (@wpbroken2much) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-has-zero-posts/#post-16379433) * After over 30 minutes I hit the refresh button in my browser and the process continued the way it should have been running automatically the entire time. * I also received a notice at the top which said, “It appears background processing may be getting blocked on the server (or could just be running slowly). Activating backup AJAX processing to ensure completion, so please keep this window open.” - This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/). * Plugin Author [Never Settle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neversettle/) * (@neversettle) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-has-zero-posts/#post-16380473) * Hey [@wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/) happy to take a closer look but it sounds like maybe a caching issue or something else causing Cloner to not be able to progress. Are you able to create sites manually? * Thread Starter [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/) * (@wpbroken2much) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-has-zero-posts/#post-16390844) * I’ve progressed a bit but there seems to be a problem with not all images being copied. I will most likely have to fix that by downloading them with FileZilla and uploading them to the new site directly. * Also, is there a way to run the images off their original location instead of copying them? * I would prefer if you guys rewrote the URL so that the images are accessible from the new domain but remain where they were originally on the file system. That way I don’t have to copy all images just to break up a site. * Thread Starter [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/) * (@wpbroken2much) * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clone-has-zero-posts/#post-16394909) * I used WP Migrate DB to replace the image URLs so that they use the same structure as the first site. This is only a partial fix so far due to the same images which you guys should have copied to /uploads/sites/4/2022 not being accessible in the case of featured images. For some reason WP decided to store featured images without their full locations in the meta table electing instead to store stuff like 2022/6/mypic.jpg which requires the directory to be set somewhere else. * Now people can at least see the images in the post body. Now I am running reGenerate Thumbnails which should extract the images from the content and save copies to the new folder. It will take several hours to run. Right now my main concern is that it finishes, detects all images, and writes them to the correct folder. Knowing my luck they’ll just regenerate the images in the original folder and leave the URLs alone costing me an entire day due to how many images are involved. I would feel much better if you guy just copied all images the first time or at least provided some feedback as to which images were not copied and why. - This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/). - This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by [wpbroken2much](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbroken2much/). 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