Alley

Matthew Boynes

WordPress has a wonderful editing model with its “draft workflow”, where writers can save unpublished drafts, preview posts, submit drafts for review from a superior, and even schedule a post’s publication. This is all that most writers and teams ever needed for a blog. WordPress has extended beyond blogs, and has grown to be the preferred platform for any person or team writing for the web. While WordPress has evolved, its editing model has not, and this editing model is limited. Once a post is published, edits cannot follow the same workflow. That’s where this plugin comes in. This plugin has two powerful features, the ability to clone posts and the ability to replace posts with another, which combined, allow writers to leverage core’s “draft workflow” for published posts.
<h4>Features</h4>
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<li>Create clones of existing posts. The replicas are created as drafts, and have all the same data (including terms and post meta) as the original post. The only things not cloned are child posts (which include revisions, attachments, and other posts)</li>
<li>Replace one post with another. The replaced post becomes a revision of itself, the replacing post is essentially deleted, and you’re left with the replacing post’s data with the post ID and slug of the replaced post.</li>
</ul>
Combined, these features give writers a pseudo-“fork and merge” model. Published posts can be cloned, the clones edited as any other draft can be, then the originals replaced with the clones.
Individually, these features are equally as useful. You don’t need to use the “fork and merge” model to take advantage of this plugin.

Clone & Replace

Gives you the ability to clone posts, and replace posts. Together, you have a very powerful tool for a fork/merge editing model.

Kazi Rabiul Islam

devtheme

Moduify

Meta Duplicate Post is a powerful, flexible WordPress plugin that lets you duplicate posts, pages, and custom post types with a single click. It features an intuitive settings interface that lets you control which user roles can duplicate content and which post types are allowed. All meta data is duplicated along with the content, ensuring that your copies are complete and ready for editing.
Key features include: 
– One-Click Duplication: Easily duplicate any post, page, or custom post type. 
– Role-Based Permissions: Only authorized users (as set in the Permissions settings) can duplicate content. 
– Advanced Settings: Configure default post status, author, and date for duplicated posts. 
– Custom Post Type Support: Duplicate any post type that has a UI – including popular custom post types like Contact Form 7. 
– Meta Data Duplication: All associated meta fields are copied along with the post content. 
– Secure and Optimized: Built using the singleton pattern with robust input sanitization, escaping, and nonce verification. 
– Localization Ready: Fully translatable to meet international needs.
<h3>License</h3>
Meta Duplicate Post is released under the GPLv2 or later license. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Meta Duplicate Post

Duplicate posts, pages, and custom post types in one click while preserving metadata, taxonomies, user roles, and permissions.

Clone & Replace vs Meta Duplicate Post