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WordPress has a wonderful editing model with its “draft workflow”, where writers can save unpublished drafts, preview posts, submit drafts for review from a superior, and even schedule a post’s publication.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

Globalis

Sometimes happiness is about small things. What about being able to prepare a new version of your content while its original is still online?
Anticipating and preparing the next version of an article which is already online can quickly become a tedious and risky task. Indeed, most publishers will create a brand new post, fill it in, publish it once it’s ready and finally disable the original article.
<h4>Basic features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>creation of a new version of an article in 1 click;</li>
<li>direct access to other pending versions of an article;</li>
<li>update of an article to its new version in 1 click.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>duplication of an article into a brand new independent copy;</li>
<li>hookable 😉 </li>
<li>works with any post types, custom or not</li>
<li>makes coffee (we’re still working on that)</li>
</ul>
<h3>About</h3>
<h4>Hooks</h4>
pnv_duplicata_status_args 
Filter that can be used to alter arguments sent to ‘register_post_status’. 
Default arguments are:
<ul>
<li>
label => Duplicate
</li>
<li>
public => false
</li>
<li>
exclude_from_search => true
</li>
<li>
show_in_admin_all_list => false
</li>
<li>
label_count =>
</li>
<li>
<ul>
<li>singular => Duplicate (%s)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<ul>
<li>plural => Duplicates (%s)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
pnv_erase_content_destination 
Filter that can be used to alter $destination array before ‘wp_insert_post’ get called when a copy, duplication or replacement is triggered 
This filter sends 3 other parameters: the $source object (WP_Post instance) and the $copy boolean
pnv_filtered_metas 
Filter that can be used to alter meta names that must not be treated while a post is copied, duplicated or replaced 
The default metas is an array with these values:
<ul>
<li>_pnv_duplicata => true</li>
</ul>
pnv_erase_content 
Action triggered at the end of a copy, duplication or replacement. 
This action sends 4 parameters:
<ul>
<li>
the $source object (WP_Post instance)
</li>
<li>
the $destination array (represents post data)
</li>
<li>
the $copy boolean
</li>
<li>
the destination’s post ID
</li>
</ul>
pnv_action_url_redirect 
Filter that can be used to alter redirect URL after a copy, duplication or replacement. 
The default value is the admin edit page for the destination post (the one that has been saved) 
This filter sends 1 other parameter: the destination post ID 
pnv_{column_name}_column_value 
Filter that can be used to alter the value displayed on the posts list, in the ‘{column_name}’ column. 
This plugin comes with only one custom column for now, ‘duplicata’, so {column_name} will always be ‘duplicata’, and the default value will be the count of duplicates for the post. 
This filter sends 1 other parameter: the post ID
<h4>Thank’s</h4>
The original version of this plugin has been developed by Lionel POINTET (https://github.com/lpointet) who keeps following the project carefully.
A big thank-you to <a href="http://www.groupemoniteur.fr/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groupe Moniteur</a> for which a great part of this development was intended and which accepted enthusiastically to do a completely open source plugin from it. Thank you to <a href="http://uncategorized-creations.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Uncategorized Creations</a> people, for their regular advice and their perseverance in making WordPress a leading CMS.
<h4>GLOBALIS</h4>
<a href="http://www.globalis-ms.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">GLOBALIS</a> is a web IT consulting company based in Paris, and a pioneer of the PHP and LAMP platform. Since 1997, we have been designing, making and maintaining Internet, intranet or mobile software. We have been working with open source CMS since 2000 and have regularly been using WordPress since 2007.

Prepare New Version

Create the next version of your post while preserving its already online version.

Clone & Replace vs Prepare New Version