Description

This plugin allows users to clone posts of any type, or copy them to new drafts for further editing.

How it works:

In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages’, you can click on ‘Clone’ link below the post/page title: this will immediately create a copy and return to the list.
In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages’, you can select one or more items, then choose ‘Clone’ in the ‘Bulk Actions’ dropdown to copy them all at once.
In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages’, you can click on ‘New Draft’ link below the post/page title.
On the post edit screen, you can click on ‘Copy to a new draft’ above “Cancel”/”Move to trash” or in the admin bar.
While viewing a post as a logged in user, you can click on ‘Copy to a new draft’ in the admin bar.

3, 4 and 5 will lead to the edit page for the new draft: change what you want, click on ‘Publish’ and you’re done.

There is also a template tag, so you can put it in your templates and clone your posts/pages from the front-end. Clicking on the link will lead you to the edit page for the new draft, just like the admin bar link.

Duplicate Post has many useful settings to customize its behavior and restrict its use to certain roles or post types. Check out the extensive documentation on yoast.com and our developer docs.

Contribute

If you find this useful and if you want to contribute, there are two ways:

Submit your bug reports, suggestions and requests for features on GitHub;
If you want to translate it to your language (there are just a few lines of text), you can use the translation project;

Screenshots

Here you can copy the post you're editing to a new draft.
By clicking on "Clone" the post is cloned immediately. "New draft" leads to the edit screen.
The options page.
The template tag manually added to Twenty Ten theme. Click on the "Copy to a new draft" link and you're redirected to the edit screen for a new draft copy of your post.
The admin bar link.
Bulk clone action.

Installation

Use WordPress’ Add New Plugin feature, searching “Duplicate Post”, or download the archive and:

Unzip the archive on your computer
Upload duplicate-post directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Go to Settings -> Duplicate Post and customize behaviour as needed

FAQ

The plugin doesn’t work, why?

First, check your version of WordPress: the plugin is not supposed to work on old versions anymore. Make sure also to upgrade to the last version of the plugin!

Then try to deactivate and re-activate it, some user have reported that this fixes some problems.

Pay also attention to the “Permissions” tab in the Settings: make sure the plugin is enabled for the desired roles and post types.

If it still doesn’t work, maybe there is some kind of conflict with other plugins: feel free to write in the forum and we’ll try to discover a solution (it will be really helpful if you try to deactivate all your other plugins one by one to see which one conflicts with mine… But do it only if you know what you’re doing, I will not be responsible of any problem you may experience).

The plugin is not translated in my language!

From version 3.0 the plugin’s translations are managed by the WordPress.org platform and the plugin is shipped without language files, so first of all update translations under Dashboard->Updates.

If Duplicate Post is still in English, or if there are some untraslated strings, you can help traslating to your language here: you only need a WordPress.org account.

Reviews

jdewit August 23, 2020

I was asked to find why a WP dashboard was slow, turns out this plugin was doing API calls to a non-responsive server. I deleted it and went looking for my trusty duplicate post plugin only to find it had spawned into this monster. This move is about as far from the open source spirit as you can get. I copied the most recent version of the Duplicate Post plugin to github and I'll be using that from now on.

opus13i August 19, 2020

As soon as Yoast took it over it became a severe eyesore. No, I am not going to join your mailing list. No, I don't need to be thanked for using a tool. NO, I don't need your damn brand everywhere on the backend.

alex.alp July 20, 2020

this used to be one of the plugins i used on very WordPress install, but since Yoast bought it, it keeps showing a really annoying notification, what a disappointment, it will probably so bloated like Yoast in the future versions. I disabled it and deleted, never again! time to move to the alternative plugin

fabienlege July 15, 2020

Very good & usefull plugin ! I remove 2 stars for the very disturbing notification that appears everywhere. it's really annoying since its addition and worse since the takeover by Yoast. One of the main advantages of this plugin so far was its discretion. Too bad Ok, you can disable this in settings. but when you manage many sites, it's a real waste of time What would WordPress look like if all the plugins were like this?

Luisa Ravelli July 14, 2020

Fast, simple and effective! Thank you for saving my time! 😉

Gloria Liuni July 10, 2020

I admit it. I only use it when I really need it! 😉 Usually when I add Custom post type (team, portfolio), because this simplifies the work of those who will insert the content in the site. I especially appreciate the configuration options that allow you to decide on which post type to apply the duplication or which roles have this privilege. And above all decide which content of the post I want to duplicate. Thank you.

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Contributors & Developers

“Yoast Duplicate Post” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

“Yoast Duplicate Post” has been translated into 46 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Yoast Duplicate Post” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

3.2.5 (2020-07-07)

First release from Yoast
Accessibility improvements to the settings page
Accessibility improvements to the “Show original item” metabox
Accessibility improvements to the “Show original item” check box in Quick Edit
duplicate_post_blacklist_filter deprecated in favor of duplicate_post_excludelist_filter

3.2.4 (2019-12-10)

Options to show original item in post list (in a column or alongside post states) or in a metabox in the edit screen
Accessibility improvements
Small other fixes

3.2.3 (2019-07-10)

Fixes incompatibility with previous versions of CF7
Now roles without edit_posts capability but having equivalent capability for custom post types can be allowed to copy
Small other fixes to bugs that could lead to incompatibilities with WPML and others

3.2.2 (2018-04-13)

The “Admin bar” option shows the link in the post edit screen too, so you can use the plugin with Gutenberg enabled
Option for “Slug” not set by default on new installations
Better display of icon in the Admin bar on small screens

3.2.1 (2017-11-25)

Fixing some issues of the 3.* trunk before major redesign
Fixes issue when upgrading on multisite
Improved compatibility with WPML + page builders, thanks to WPML team
Prevents creating a revision immediately after the cloning

3.2 (2017-04-04)

new website with extensive documentation
WPML compatibility, thanks to WPML team
improved Jetpack compatibility (Subscriptions, Markdown)
small changes to hooks
improved security with nonces
various small fixes

3.1.2 (2016-12-13)

Fix for custom fields not copied

3.1.1 (2016-12-13)

Fix for nasty update nag (plus a failsafe checkbox)

3.1 (2016-12-13)

Bulk clone action added (WP 4.7+)
Wildcards enabled for custom fields to skip
Options to copy post author, post format (moved from taxonomies), menu order, post template
Check publish_posts/publish_pages capability to prevent Contributors from publishing by cloning
Using wp_slash (WP 3.6+) or a better workaround (WP 4.4+) on the post and its meta, should also fix some compatibility issues
Check if admin bar is showing before enqueueing CSS
Probable fix for repeated clone bug
Other minor bugs fixed

3.0.3 (2016-10-29)

Notices in admin after copying
Fixes warning in custom post type archives
Uses site options for version and notice
Minor fixes

3.0.2 (2016-10-18)

Can now be enabled for every custom post type with visible UI (not just public ones)
Admin bar CSS only enqueued when needed
New “Donate” button
Fixes for minor bugs and typos

3.0.1 (2016-10-09)

Fixes the issues for people upgrading from an older version

3.0 (2016-10-09)

Settings page redesigned
More options to enable/disable copy of every part of a post
Enable/disable cloning for every custom post type
Jetpack Publicize compatibility
Fixed a possible XSS
Fixed other little bugs
Translations removed to use WP.org’s official translation project
Checked PHP 7 compatibility

2.6 (2014-04-27)

PHP 5.4 (Strict Standards) compatible
Fixed possible XSS and SQL injections
other bugs
Updated and added translations
Tested up to WP 3.8.1

2.4.1 (2014-02-22)

Fixed regression about draft permalinks
Fixed bug with guid
Don’t clone to_ping and pinged (maybe there will be an option about those later)

2.4 (2012-04-29)

New option to clone the children of the original page
Licence changed to GPLv2 or later
Fixed publishing dates for drafts
Fixed bug with prefix/suffix
Translation project moved to GlotPress

2.3 (2012-04-06)

Added options to choose where to show the “Clone” links
Clone attachments (i.e. references in the DB, not physical files)
Fix for untranslated user roles
Some other fixes (missing checks, PHP warnings and errors, etc.)

2.2 (2012-02-01)

Fix for problems when copying serialized meta fields
Fix for multiple _dp_original field
Removed deprecated parameter when adding options

2.1.1 (2012-01-04)

Can’t rely on activation hook for upgrade, this caused problems with new options

2.1 (2012-01-03)

Even more code cleaning (no more custom queries, using WP API)
Term order preserved when copying
Stopped using deprecated User levels, now it uses Roles and Capabilities
‘Copy to a new draft’ link in admin bar
duplicate_post_get_original template tag
Settings link in plugin list, ‘Donate’ and ‘Translate’ link in option page

2.0.2 (2011-12-12)

Fixed bug for permalinks
Two links on posts list: clone immediately or copy to a new draft to edit.
Tested on multisite mode.

2.0.1 (2011-12-08)

Fixed bug for action filters
New option so you can choose if cloning from the posts list must copy the post status (draft, published, pending) too.

2.0 (2011-12-08)

WP 3.3 compatibility (still not tested against multiblog feature, so beware)
Minimum WP version: 3.0
Code cleanup
Immediate cloning from post list
Added options for taxonomies and post excerpt
Added suffix option
Added template tag

1.1.2 (2011-04-08)

WP 3.1.1 compatibility (still not tested against multiblog feature, so beware)
Added complete Polish language files

1.1.1 (2010-06-30)

Plugin split in two files for faster opening in Plugins list page
fix conflicts with a few other plugins
Added Dutch language files

1.1 (2010-06-24)

WP 3.0 compatibility (not tested against multiblog feature, so beware)
Option page: minimum user level, title prefix, fields not to be copied, copy post/page date also
Added German, Swedish, Romanian, Hebrew, Catalan (incomplete) and Polish (incomplete) language files

1.0 (2010-06-15)

Better integration with WP 2.7+ interface
Added actions for plugins which store post metadata in self-managed tables
Added French and Spanish language files
Dropped WP 2.6.5 compatibility

0.6.1 (2009-12-03)

Tested WP 2.9 compatibility

0.6 (2007-07-21)

Fix for WP 2.8.1
WPMU compatibility
Internationalization (Italian and Japanese language files shipped)

0.5 (2009-01-09)

Fix for post-meta
WP2.7 compatibility

0.4 (2008-11-23)

Support for new WP post revision feature

0.3 (2008-03-01)

Initial version on WP repository

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