Do you want to duplicate a page or post to make content updates? Or possibly you want to test a particular template for a new page on your website?
Whatever the goal is, there are many methods to duplicate a post and page in WordPress. This tutorial will explain different methods to duplicate a page in WordPress, both with and without a plugin.
Method 1: Using a Plugin
There are many pages or post duplicator in wordpress plugin but the plugin stands out the most is the Duplicate Plugin by Yoast. Aside from cloning the page and post, it can even duplicate comments, slug, menu, and many more.
Download the plugin then install and activate the plugin.
To copy a page or post, just hover the action menu below the page or post you wanted to copy and click Clone.
Once you click it, it will automatically duplicate the page with the same title and content but in Draft status.
Method 2: Advance Method Using Custom Code
If you don’t want to use a plugin, you can manually add it to your functions.php using wordpress hooks, filters, and custom functions.
Just copy and paste the code snippet below, and save it.
/* * Function for post duplication. Dups appear as drafts. User is redirected to the edit screen */
function rd_duplicate_post_as_draft(){ global $wpdb; if (! ( isset( $_GET['post']) || isset( $_POST['post']) || ( isset($_REQUEST['action']) && 'rd_duplicate_post_as_draft' == $_REQUEST['action'] ) ) ) { wp_die('No post to duplicate has been supplied!'); }
/* * Nonce verification */
if ( !isset( $_GET['duplicate_nonce'] ) || !wp_verify_nonce( $_GET['duplicate_nonce'], basename( __FILE__ ) ) ) return;
/* * get the original post id */
$post_id = (isset($_GET['post']) ? absint( $_GET['post'] ) : absint( $_POST['post'] ) );
/* * and all the original post data then */
$post = get_post( $post_id );
/* * if you don't want current user to be the new post author, * then change next couple of lines to this: $new_post_author = $post->post_author; */
$current_user = wp_get_current_user(); $new_post_author = $current_user->ID;
/* * if post data exists, create the post duplicate */
if (isset( $post ) && $post != null) {
/* * new post data array */
$args = array( 'comment_status' => $post->comment_status, 'ping_status' => $post->ping_status, 'post_author' => $new_post_author, 'post_content' => $post->post_content, 'post_excerpt' => $post->post_excerpt, 'post_name' => $post->post_name, 'post_parent' => $post->post_parent, 'post_password' => $post->post_password, 'post_status' => 'draft', 'post_title' => $post->post_title, 'post_type' => $post->post_type, 'to_ping' => $post->to_ping, 'menu_order' => $post->menu_order );
/* * insert the post by wp_insert_post() function */
$new_post_id = wp_insert_post( $args );
/* * get all current post terms ad set them to the new post draft */
$taxonomies = get_object_taxonomies($post->post_type);
// returns array of taxonomy names for post type, ex array("category", "post_tag");
foreach ($taxonomies as $taxonomy) { $post_terms = wp_get_object_terms($post_id, $taxonomy, array('fields' => 'slugs')); wp_set_object_terms($new_post_id, $post_terms, $taxonomy, false); }
/* * duplicate all post meta just in two SQL queries */
$post_meta_infos = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT meta_key, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id=$post_id"); if (count($post_meta_infos)!=0) { $sql_query = "INSERT INTO $wpdb->postmeta (post_id, meta_key, meta_value) "; foreach ($post_meta_infos as $meta_info) { $meta_key = $meta_info->meta_key; if( $meta_key == '_wp_old_slug' ) continue; $meta_value = addslashes($meta_info->meta_value); $sql_query_sel[]= "SELECT $new_post_id, '$meta_key', '$meta_value'"; } $sql_query.= implode(" UNION ALL ", $sql_query_sel); $wpdb->query($sql_query); }
/* * finally, redirect to the edit post screen for the new draft */
wp_redirect( admin_url( 'post.php?action=edit&post=' . $new_post_id ) ); exit; } else { wp_die('Post creation failed, could not find original post: ' . $post_id); } } add_action( 'admin_action_rd_duplicate_post_as_draft', 'rd_duplicate_post_as_draft' );
/* * Add the duplicate link to action list for post_row_actions */
function rd_duplicate_post_link( $actions, $post ) { if (current_user_can('edit_posts')) { $actions['duplicate'] = '<a href="' . wp_nonce_url('admin.php?action=rd_duplicate_post_as_draft&post=' . $post->ID, basename(__FILE__), 'duplicate_nonce' ) . '" title="Duplicate this item" rel="permalink">Duplicate</a>'; } return $actions; } add_filter( 'post_row_actions', 'rd_duplicate_post_link', 10, 2 );
Once you save the code snippet above, you should see the Duplicate button when you hover over the Post or Page title.
Wrapping Up
We hope that this article helped you a lot. Just make sure to backup your WordPress website so that you can revert it to the previous state if there are errors.