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New in 2sxc 7: #5 Create identical Copies of a DNN-Site

This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to Exporting and Importing DNN-Portals to create a Copy of a Site which manages most content with 2sxc.  

Why Copy A DNN Site/Portal?

This was inspired by Tracy Wittenkeller of T-Worx, who told me that Skin-Designers core problem is that they need to supply a full package where the customer gets a working, already-good-looking and content-pre-filled feature-rich site when they install everything. So now 2sxc can export all content-data and Apps in such a way to re-create the identical site elsewhere. This is great for site-migrations and staging-sites. 

So what's the big Deal?

In the background this is a very complex topic because the core way DNN is built assumes that content is mapped to a specific module - while the 2sxc-model is more Content-Item based, assuming there is a Content-Item (say a persons address) which can be re-used in many ways and pages. Thanks to some large refactoring in 2sxc 7, we finally found a way to get this to work.

Common Use Cases for Copying/Moving Sites

  1. Move from Test-Environment to live
  2. Create staging copy of an existing site
  3. Create a clone - do major changes for review - then publish the clone to replace the live system

Common Use Cases for Creating Site-Clones

  1. Selling Skins - together with functioning portal-templates containing image-rotators, nice looking content, etc.
  2. Selling solutions - like a Jobs-Portal or Real-Estate Portal - pre-filled with everything; just-replace-the-logo
  3. Product-Microsites which will look almost the same across a company
  4. Simple, special topics like Restaurants, Events, etc. - again with standardized pre-made fully featured sites

How to Clone a DNN/2sxc Site

We've prepared initial instructions here to Copy/Duplicate an entire DNN-Site with 2sxc Content and Apps.

I believe you'll love this - it should make the life of Skin/Theme designers much easier and open up a new industry for Solution-Creators; solutions being a package of skins, pre-filled content and apps all targeted to a specific use case (restaurant, event, dentist-sites etc.)

With love from Switzerland,
Daniel 

Daniel Mettler grew up in the jungles of Indonesia and is founder and CEO of 2sic internet solutions in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, an 20-head web specialist with over 600 DNN projects since 1999. He is also chief architect of 2sxc (2SexyContent - see forge), an open source module for creating attractive content and DNN Apps.

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