Title: Disable before using Duplicator
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# Disable before using Duplicator

 *  [winchelsea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winchelsea/)
 * (@winchelsea)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-before-using-duplicator/)
 * An excellent plugin, does exactly what it says, but if you create a WP site in
   one place i.e. a test server, with this plugin installed and then move the site
   to another location without disabling the plugin it will break the site in the
   new location.
 * I always develop a site, then use Duplicator to upload to the actual host to 
   go live. It took me a while to track this plugin down as the problem which removed
   the CSS and JS. It uses the .htaccess file and the Rewrite rule to do the job,
   hence all the “this breaks my site” and “don’t use comments”.
 * Probably cured by updating the documentation and adding a warning to the top 
   of the plugin page.

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