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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WordPress has a wonderful editing model with its “draft workflow”, where writers can save unpublished drafts, preview posts, submit drafts for review from a superior, and even schedule a post’s publication.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>
<ul>
<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.

carlosfazenda

The Fast Page & Post Duplicator plugin lets you make a copy of any post or page in WordPress with one click.
It makes a copy of the original content so you can use the same layouts, formatting and structure again without having to start from scratch.
This plugin is simple and fast. It makes managing content easier.
It is great for:
<ul>
<li>Using the same page layouts</li>
<li>Making versions of landing pages</li>
<li>Copying posts to update or translate them</li>
<li>Making copies of templates quickly</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
✔ Duplicate posts with one click 
✔ Duplicate pages with one click 
✔ It copies the content, title and settings 
✔ Keeps the structure and formatting as the original post 
✔ Fast and simple 
✔ With a simple interface in the WordPress post list
New things in recent versions:
✔ See what you have cloned recently 
✔ View statistics on who is cloning what 
✔ Check history of all the clones you have made
<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the Fast Page & Post Duplicator plugin.</li>
<li>Go to Posts → All Posts or Pages → All Pages.</li>
<li>Move your mouse over any item in the list.</li>
<li>Click Clone.</li>
<li>The copied content will open as a draft. You can edit and publish it.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Why use Fast Page & Post Duplicator?</h3>
Making pages from scratch can take a time.
With the Fast Page & Post Duplicator plugin you can make a copy of existing content. Change it which saves you time and makes sure your site looks consistent.
The Fast Page & Post Duplicator plugin works with the WordPress admin interface and does not need any special setup.

Fast Page & Post Duplicator

Make a copy of posts and pages with just one click.

Clone & Replace vs Fast Page & Post Duplicator