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 It used to take me a few hours to piece together the perfect installation of WordPress. Sure, back in the day when I was first starting out, this was time well spent, as I was researching the perfect plugins and themes, and it was fun! It still is! The only problem here is that now that I am trying to minimise the amount of time that I spend doing these tasks, the idea of spending two hours to get a blog live, well… its not exactly time well spent. I wanted to know how to clone wordpress installations. 

 I was once told by a very smart person that a job needs to be done right rather than by cutting corners. This applies to WordPress more than anything, especially when cloning installations of the software, as there is just so much that can go wrong. It needs to be done right. And with that in the back of my mind, I still needed to find an option that shaved down the time spend on installing WordPress. 

 You see, a lot of these WordPress cloners just don't work, and this is the biggest problem that I have faced. If I had a document that noted all of the errors that I have received, it would be seen as a good price of comedy, it is simply that hard to find something that actually works. 

 You would not believe some of the errors that I have seen. If there is a known error with SQL databases, I have seen it. WPconfig errors, permissions, anything… I have seen it through this testing. 

 Now, I have gone on long enough about this already, but the real question here is why I do this in the first place? The idea is simple time management. If I can reduce time spent on these kinds of tasks, then this means that I am better using my time value. Installing blogs is not exactly a money oriented task, the real income is derived from when the sales copy goes on that blog, or when content is written, as such, this is the kind of task that can warrant valued time to be spent on it. 

 Your time is massively valuable. Some people choose to outsource this kind of work to people offshore at a cost of $5 per hour, which is fantastic if you have a higher time value than that. This exact same principal applies to the kind of work involved in creating a clone wordpress installation. If it is entirely possible to find a much more efficient way to get the work done, and if that new process means that you can get a better job done in as little time as possible, then you will have won the battle. I recommend it, and I am sure that when you get started, you will too.