Blueprints

What blueprints are

If you build more than one site, you probably start each one the same way: the same theme, the same plugins, the same pages and settings. A blueprint saves a finished website as a starting point, so every new website can start from it instead of from scratch.

• Included on every plan. An account can keep up to 5 blueprints; they count toward its disk space.
• Saving a blueprint does not change the website it is made from.

Save a blueprint

1. Open Blueprints

   Sidebar → Blueprints, or the Save as blueprint tile on a website's Manage page.

2. Choose the website and a name

   Pick the website to copy and give the blueprint a name you will recognize, like Restaurant starter.

3. Save

   The website is copied as it is right now, usually in under a minute. It keeps running normally.

Start a website from a blueprint

1. Add a website

   On the dashboard press Add website (or New website next to the blueprint).

2. Choose the blueprint under Start from

   Enter the new website's address as usual and pick the blueprint instead of An empty website. The new website is ready in a minute or two.

What is copied

Every file (theme, plugins, uploads) and, for WordPress, the whole database: pages, posts, menus, settings and users, so you sign in with the same username and password. The new website gets its own address, its own security keys and, when the original hides its login page, its own new hidden login address.