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Save Time. Work Smarter. Duplicate Any Post Type with Ease.
Post Duplicator is the ultimate WordPress plugin for quickly creating exact duplicates of any post type in your WordPress site. Whether you’re working with standard posts, pages, or custom post types, this plugin makes it effortless to clone content while preserving all taxonomies, custom fields, and metadata.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Universal Post Type Support – Works with every post type WordPress supports, including custom post types from your favorite plugins and themes</li>
<li>Complete Data Preservation – Automatically copies all taxonomies, custom fields, metadata, and featured images</li>
<li>Bulk Duplication – Select and duplicate multiple posts at once with individual settings per post</li>
<li>Multiple Clones – Create multiple copies of a single post simultaneously (up to 50 clones)</li>
<li>Flexible Duplication Options – Customize title, slug, status, author, date, post type, and parent for each duplicate</li>
<li>Featured Image Management – Set, replace, or remove featured images directly in the duplication modal</li>
<li>Smart Defaults – Configure default settings that apply to all duplications (draft status, current user as author)</li>
<li>Post Types Configuration – Control which post types can be duplicated and which appear in the “Post Type” dropdown menu</li>
<li>Permission Control – Granular control over who can duplicate posts with role-based permissions</li>
<li>Modern Interface – Beautiful modal interface with live editing and expandable settings</li>
<li>Cross-Post Type Duplication – Convert posts to different post types during duplication</li>
<li>Hierarchical Post Support – Set parent posts for pages and hierarchical custom post types</li>
<li>One-Click Operation – Duplicate posts from the posts list, edit screen, or block editor toolbar</li>
</ul>
Perfect For:
<ul>
<li>Developers – Quickly generate test content and dummy data for development using bulk or multiple clone features</li>
<li>Content Managers – Create content templates and variations efficiently with one-click duplication</li>
<li>Bloggers – Repurpose successful posts with different angles or formats using multiple clones</li>
<li>E-commerce – Duplicate product variations and bulk duplicate similar listings across categories</li>
<li>Content Marketers – Create A/B testing variations with the multiple clones feature</li>
<li>Site Migrations – Bulk duplicate posts when restructuring or migrating content</li>
<li>Multilingual Sites – Works seamlessly with WPML and Polylang for multilingual content</li>
</ul>
What Gets Duplicated:
<ul>
<li>Post content and formatting</li>
<li>Title and slug (with customizable suffixes or full editing)</li>
<li>All custom fields and metadata</li>
<li>Categories, tags, and custom taxonomies</li>
<li>Featured images (with ability to change or remove)</li>
<li>Post format and excerpt</li>
<li>Comment and ping status</li>
<li>Menu order</li>
<li>Post parent (for hierarchical post types)</li>
</ul>
What Doesn’t Get Duplicated:
<ul>
<li>Comments (by design – prevents duplicate comment threads)</li>
<li>Post ID and GUID (new unique identifiers assigned)</li>
</ul>
How to Use:
<ol>
<li>Single Duplication: Hover over any post and click “Duplicate [Post Type]” in the row actions, or click the “Duplicate Post” button in the Gutenberg editor</li>
<li>Multiple Clones: In the duplication modal, click the copy icon to create multiple copies of a single post (up to 50 clones)</li>
<li>Bulk Duplication: Select multiple posts using checkboxes, choose “Duplicate” from the Bulk Actions dropdown, then configure each post individually</li>
<li>Customize Settings: Edit title, slug, status, author, date, post type, featured image, and parent for each duplicate</li>
<li>Configure Defaults: Go to Settings > Post Duplicator to set default status, author, date, and title/slug suffixes</li>
<li>Configure Post Types: Go to Settings > Post Duplicator > Post Types to control which post types can be duplicated and which appear in the “Post Type” dropdown menu</li>
</ol>
Default Settings:
The plugin works immediately with sensible defaults: 
* Duplicated posts are created as Drafts (prevents accidental publishing) 
* Title suffix: “Copy” 
* Slug suffix: “copy” 
* Author: Current User 
* Date: Current Time
All defaults can be customized in Settings > Post Duplicator.
Integration:
Post Duplicator works seamlessly with: 
* WPML and Polylang (multilingual support) 
* WooCommerce (excludes review counts automatically) 
* ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) – preserves all field data 
* WP Customer Area (special file duplication support) 
* All custom post types and taxonomies
Security:
<ul>
<li>Users without <code>publish_posts</code> capability cannot publish duplicates (forced to Pending)</li>
<li>Non-authors cannot duplicate unpublished posts from other users</li>
<li>Granular permission system controls who can duplicate posts</li>
<li>All data is sanitized and validated before duplication</li>
</ul>
Developer-Friendly:
Includes hooks and filters for easy customization: 
* <code>mtphr_post_duplicator_created</code> action 
* <code>mtphr_post_duplicator_meta_{$key}_enabled</code> filter 
* <code>mtphr_post_duplicator_meta_value</code> filter

Post Duplicator


so basic that i would miss this in core.



great support either!


Just great.


Much better than Yoast Post Duplicate and Page Duplicate plugins. It is a shame this plugin seems to be burried. It works better, and follows admin setting guidelines. And best of all, it does not have any obstrusive pro money swindling practices.



This is how a plugin should be made!


Perfect!

Creates functionality to duplicate any and all post types, including taxonomies & custom fields. Perfect for developers and content creators.

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.

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