Title: Does Duplicator keeps IDs the same?
Last modified: December 15, 2017

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# Does Duplicator keeps IDs the same?

 *  Resolved [Coptic-Treasures](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coptic-treasures/)
 * (@coptic-treasures)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-duplicator-keeps-ids-the-same/)
 * Hi,
    I have an existing webite that ‘i want to move to a new subdomain. However,
   this site was live for quite some time. so a lot of “deletion” to posts and taxonomy
   happened in it. therefore, there are a lot of empty lines in the database.
 * my question is: if I used duplicator to duplicate the site and put it on a new
   database, will the plugin reserve the ids of the existing posts and taxonomy?
 * i.e., will I end up with the same holes in the database?
 * my final website will have thousands of posts, so i dont want to live with a 
   database that is full of holes.
 * Thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by [Coptic-Treasures](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coptic-treasures/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdoes-duplicator-keeps-ids-the-same%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-duplicator-keeps-ids-the-same/#post-9786800)
 * Hey [@coptic-treasures](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coptic-treasures/),
 * From a database standpoint, the only data that is changed is where it finds instances
   of your old URL and its replaced with the new URL. All of the DB table keys/ids
   stay the same.
 * Hope that helps~

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