WordPress.org announced Reprint on November 13, 2026. It’s a free, open-source plugin with a command-line client that copies a whole WordPress site, files and database, to a new host or to your own computer. It sits in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory and comes from the project’s Data Liberation work, which started in 2024.

What’s new

WordPress has long let you export posts and pages, but a full move meant bringing the theme, plugins, uploads and settings too. WordPress.org says Reprint handles that in one tool:

  • It sends files and the database straight to the destination in pieces, with no outside service in the middle.
  • The old host doesn’t have to build one big archive of the site before the transfer starts.
  • If the connection drops, it picks up from the last saved point.
  • Give it a new site address and it updates links in settings, blocks, shortcodes, serialized data and custom fields.
  • Repeat copies only move the files that changed.

There’s also an experimental option that opens a copy of your site in the browser through WordPress Playground. WordPress.org links step-by-step guides for moving hosts and making a test copy.

Who it affects

Anyone running a self-hosted WordPress site who needs to change hosts, build a staging copy or keep a local backup for testing. It’s most useful on cheap shared hosting, where big archive exports often time out, and for agencies that copy client sites before updates.

The announcement doesn’t list supported WordPress versions, server requirements or hosts it’s been tested on, so check the plugin page before you rely on it for a live move.

Our take

We like this. A free, official tool that resumes after a dropped connection and fixes serialized links covers the two spots where most migrations go wrong. We’d still test it on a copy first: make a local or staging copy with Reprint, click through pages, images and forms, and only then use it for a real host move. Keep your existing backup plugin running until you’ve done a full restore with Reprint at least once.

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Source: WordPress.org News, Copy Your WordPress Site with Reprint.