Technically, a WGET can be used to download a site’s page(s) to your local machine. Then, you could theoretically upload those files to your own web server, and the results will look like the original site. But only as the site existed when you WGET’d the individual pages. WordPress stores all site content in a … Read more
The easiest solution would be to use the WordPress export tool. Here you can chose a category and date range so you only export the latest ones. Posts should export with their comments too. Here is a link to the WordPress codex. http://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Export_Screen
The solution is to change the way the database is migrated. I was dumping it, doing a search and replace and then loading the amended database. I have discovered this breaks serialization. The solution which worked (and which I now believe is a best practice) is to dump and load the database unmodified. The use … Read more
Forget the tools, as you’re experiencing you don’t gain much by using them. Especially because moving WordPress isn’t really that hard to do, for starters take a look at the WordPress Codex article: »Moving WordPress«. Anything else or the details to that article you need to know are documented on here or on the net.
I have done this exact thing so that I can test plugin updates. I wrote a shell script (bash) to create the sub directory and copy the files. Then, I leveraged WP-CLI commands to create wp-config file, export/import the database and search and replace the site name in DB. Here is my script with specifics … Read more
It is not recommended to make a simple search&replace in the dump file when moving to another host, because of the presence of serialized data in some database fields (usually options fields of core and plugins). I would recommend to use one of the following migration plugins/scripts to handle the data conversion when moving WordPress: … Read more
You can build a clone of just about any website using WordPress. The question, though, is how much work are you willing to put into it? Since you’re already asking for tips/tricks and plug-ins, I’m guessing you want to make a quick clone that requires little to no additional development time. That said, here are … Read more
You can create a development copy of the existing site by: Copying all the existing files to the subdirectory. Making a copy of the database and pointing to the database copy in the /new/wp-config.php file. You will need to change the options homeurl and siteurl in new database’s wp_options table to add /new/ to the … Read more