[wp-hackers] Cloning content from Master site into new sites on a WP Network

[Bill Dennen]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Jesse Friedman
<highfive at jesserfriedman.com> wrote:
> One last question can you add custom post types to a new post in this
> fashion IF those custom post types are defined by a plugin?
>
> Since it's a new site and the switch_to_blog() function ignores plugins
> will it return an error?

You might switch_to_blog and then register the post types and
taxonomies and then add the posts. This may not be best practice, but
it has worked for me.