How to Duplicate / Copy a Post or Page in WordPress

There are times you like content elements on a blog post (perhaps a table design, some styling, or some layout which remains consistent) and you want to create another post with same configuration including all its widgets, template settings ect. Well, an easy way to do this, without having to know how to format anything, is by duplicating the post and making changes.

You can easily create a #duplicate post by using a plugin called  duplicate post.

1. Install and activate Duplicate Post plug-in (refer the article >> How to install a WordPress Plugin)
2. Duplicate Post plug-in Settings
   The plugin comes with a number of settings. Avoid this step if you want to use default settings.Go to Settings >> Duplicate Post. There you can decide whether you’d like to do things like copy the original date, the original status (draft, published, pending), the original excerpt, the original attachments, children of the original page, and taxonomies and more.

   

3. Create Duplicate
   There are two ways to duplicate a post or a page.
   Method 1:
   Go to Posts > All Posts (or Pages > All Pages). Mouse over the title of the post(page) you want to duplicate. You will see two new links there – Clone or New Draft.

   

   Clicking “Clone” will copy the post/page without opening it. Clicking “New Draft” will copy the post/page and also open it in the editor for you.
   Method 2:
   Open the post you can to duplicate in edit mode.

   

   On the post writing screen, you can click the link that says, “Copy to a new draft.” This will open a duplicate of the post or page in a new edit screen.