Are you looking for easy ways to duplicate posts and pages in WordPress? If that is the case then you have come to the right place.
In this article, we will guide you through some solutions on how to duplicate posts and pages in WordPress easily but above all, let us quickly thank all the free plugins that are made available by the community. There are a lot of reasons why duplicating posts and pages in WordPress is useful. One is that it allows you to make changes to the content you are working on, without having to change the original version. Another reason why duplicating posts and pages in WordPress is useful is to provide customers with an easy way to show content and make changes before the post or page is published.
Consistency in design
Consistency is crucial in web design, so if you have a tool to help you duplicate a page’s layout or settings, it will probably be easier for you to maintain some consistency across the site, saving you a huge amount of time.
Apply changes live
Anyone using WordPress knows that there are several ways to edit WordPress content live. In particular:
- Use a Git repository to make and save important changes, then sync them back to WordPress when they’re done.
- Wait until users are sleeping and therefore are not visiting your site (without ever being sure) and apply the changes to the page live.
- Or you can duplicate the page or article, make any changes you want directly within WordPress, and then make those changes take effect (replacing the old content) when everything is ready to go.
Reduce development times
If you are a Web Designer or a Web Developer specializing in the development of WordPress sites, you will surely know that the pages of a site almost always contain many elements in common in the layout.
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So rather than developing a page from scratch every time, you can create a basic page template that you can duplicate and modify as many times as you want, significantly reducing development time.
WordPress by default does not allow you to duplicate pages or articles, let’s see which are the best plugins for duplicating content.
How to duplicate posts and pages in WordPress
The best 3 plugins to duplicate posts and pages in WordPress
Here is a selection of the best 4 plugins you can use to clone an entire page or post and their settings in WordPress. After that, through an example, I’ll show you how to duplicate posts or pages on your WordPress site.
- Duplicate Page Plugin
Although the name may be misleading this plugin allows you to duplicate pages and posts in WordPress. All you have to do is install the plugin and you will automatically find a new option under every WordPress page and post called “Duplicate.” Once you click on the option you will have a complete copy of the desired page or post.
- Duplicate Post Plugin
Again the name of the plugin tends to be confusing as it is possible to duplicate articles and pages. The difference is with this plugin you not only can “clone” an article, but you can clone multiple articles at the same time.
Also, within each article, you can select the option “Copy to a new draft” in the publication settings. My choice fell on this plugin precisely for the last function I described to you.
- Page and Post-Clone Plugin
This plugin works similar to the other two. Once installed, what you need to do is go to the list of articles or pages and find the one you want to duplicate.
After that, in the options of the chosen element, you will have to click on “clone” to create a copy.
The newly duplicated item will automatically be created as a new draft.
How to duplicate posts and pages in WordPress
In this example, I will show you how to duplicate an article via the Duplicate Post Plugin which you can find here.
- Open the plugin settings
Once the plugin is downloaded and installed, click on the plugin settings page which you can find under the plugin options.
- Configure the plugin
Within the settings you will find three pages relating to different options:
- What to copy, on this page you can select which elements of the page or article should be copied at the time of duplication
- Permissions, this page will allow you to select which type of user can duplicate articles and pages in WordPress as well as being able to select which types of content will be possible to duplicate.
- Viewing, the options on this page will allow you to choose where to view the content duplication option. My suggestion is to select them all so that you always have the option of duplicating content.
- Duplicate an article or page
Once you have finished configuring the plugin and are ready to duplicate content, go to the list of articles or pages to proceed with the duplication.
To clone a single item, hover over it with the mouse and click on:
- Clone if you want to create an exact copy of the page or article. By doing so, if the item to be duplicated has already been published, then the copy will also be published automatically.
- New draft if you want to duplicate the desired item without automatically publishing the copy, so you can edit it at your leisure.
Conclusion
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