Title: Duplication creates empty WordPress site
Last modified: February 8, 2017

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# Duplication creates empty WordPress site

 *  Resolved [beepingpunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beepingpunk/)
 * (@beepingpunk)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplication-creates-empty-wordpress-site/)
 * Hello
 * Whenever I try to clone existing subsite, I receive blank WP admin page without
   any error messages. New subsite will appear, but it’s just fresh WordPress installation
   with default content.
 * Logging gives me following:
 * [08/Feb/2017:07:46:41] Start site duplication : from site 3
    [08/Feb/2017:07:
   46:41] Admin email : [name@domain.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplication-creates-empty-wordpress-site/name@domain.com?output_format=md)[
   08/Feb/2017:07:46:41] Domain : xx.sitename.com [08/Feb/2017:07:46:41] Path : /[
   08/Feb/2017:07:46:41] Site title : Sitename
 * I tried plugin in development environment, where the duplication worked as it
   should. Development environment has PHP 7 while production environment (where
   the problem appears) has PHP 5, otherwise they’re identical.

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 *  Plugin Author [Pierre Dargham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pdargham/)
 * (@pdargham)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplication-creates-empty-wordpress-site/#post-8804366)
 * Hello,
 * Maybe you have a PHP Fatal error when duplicating on your production environment,
   but with debug false (-> blank page).
 * Could you run the error again and provide us php error logs of your server ?
 * Bests regards,
 * Pierre
 *  Thread Starter [beepingpunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beepingpunk/)
 * (@beepingpunk)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplication-creates-empty-wordpress-site/#post-8806563)
 * Hello,
 * It seems fatal error is related to PHPMailer and it happens, when server tries
   to send an email notification about newly created multisite. As a temporary fix,
   I disabled email notifications and duplication works just fine. So it wasn’t 
   plugin-related issue at all.
 * Thank you for the awesome plugin!

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 * Last reply from: [beepingpunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beepingpunk/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplication-creates-empty-wordpress-site/#post-8806563)
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