Sharing a site
Some reasons to use site sharing:
You manage a national organization and want to provide a website framework for local chapters. By sharing the site with other nations, you give them the opportunity to get started with a site created exactly for their needs.
As a designer, you want to share a site's architecture and design with your clients. By sharing a custom theme, a client's website can have the unique look / feel you've created. By sharing a site, a client's website can have the same page structure, including copy and images, that you've already designed.
⚠️ Note: Site sharing is not available within the same nation. Sharing a website to an external sandbox and back to the original nation is not recommended.
Go to Website > [Site Name] > Site settings > Sharing.
1. You need to provide a name of the site in order to share it. The description can explain what type of site you've shared or you can provide a list of the pages included in your site.
2. To share the site with another nation, enter the nation's slug in the "Share with nation" field.
3. You'll need to check the box next to "Include user submitted pages" for those pages to be included in the copy of the site.
4. To complete the process, click the Share Site button.
What information is included in a shared site?
When you create a new site from a site type, the following information is (and isn't) copied over from the template.
Information that is included
Settings and content
Site settings
Page content & images (including user submitted page content)
Excluding autoresponse information
Featured content sliders
"After action" page slugs
Subpages
Customized page-level templates
Site and page tags
Page-type specific fields
Redirect settings in redirect pages
Event locations
Volunteer page roles and tag settings
Information that is not included in a copied site
Settings and content
Autoresponse copy & broadcaster settings
Leaderboards
Membership types
Surveys
Groups
Payment processors
Page-level point person assignments
Website Theme
Consent settings
Cookie banner configuration
People data
Page authors (all page authors will be set to the Admin responsible for the clone)
Comments
Page activity (endorsements, RSVPs, petition signatures, etc.)
Payments information
Page-based people tag assignments
Creating a site from a shared site
Once a site is shared with your nation, it will appear at the top of the list of Site Types when you create a new site. Go to Website > + New site.
Select Clone from a shared site. Sites shared with your nation will be listed in the dropdown menu. Be sure to select the shared site - it will then be highlighted in blue and the name will turn blue. Then click the Launch site button.
⚠️ Once you have created a new site from a site clone, pages from the clone should not be moved to other websites. Moving cloned pages between websites can result in duplicate page slug errors, unexpected relationships between page hierarchies and images, and the loss of page tags.