Title: Essential plugin
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Essential plugin

 *  [Mark Smallman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marks99/)
 * (@marks99)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/essential-plugin-22/)
 * I’ve been using Duplicator on all my sites for several months now, and has become
   an essential plugin to have on all sites.
    _**This should be packaged with WP
   the same as Akismet.**_ Makes moving a site from development in MAMP to live 
   server a breeze, I also create a ‘Duplicate’ of each site before applying any
   updates. It allows me to create a duplicate to download and set-up on the Mac,
   and test any core, plugin or theme updates before applying on a live customers
   site.
 * A few times I have found it fails, this is usually due to large amount of files
   in the uploads folder, simply choose to skip that folder and clone via FTP solves
   the problem.
    Would not be without it!

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