Yoast Duplicate Post

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

How it works:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages’, you can click on ‘New Draft’ link below the post/page title.

4. On the post edit screen, you can click on ‘Copy to a new draft’ above “Cancel”/”Move to trash” or in the admin bar.

5. 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:

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

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

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