Hey there welcome to WPBeginner and
thanks for tuning in.
In this video I want to walk you through
how you can duplicate a WordPress page
or a post with a single click.
So quickly we'll cover
why would you want to do that. Well if
you're updating a post but you don't
want to affect the live version
normally you could just copy all the
content, create a new post, place that
content in there.
The problem with that is you're missing
out on some of the other elements coming
over, things like your featured image,
some of your SEO data, maybe your tags.
So you really want to be able to clone or
copy the whole item and I'll show you
how to do that in this video. First thing
you want to do is go ahead and head over
to your WordPress dashboard we will be
installing a plug-in so let's head over
to the plugins, add new, and we are
searching for the duplicate posts plugin.
This is the one we want so let's install
it, once its installed let's go ahead and
activate it as well.
Alright we see it's activated here
can either go into the settings and make
some changes to show what all you want
copied over. These are all the good items
to copy over by default so we'll just
keep it like that and you can add a
prefix so it keeps things separate we'll say
copy and then here you can list
things that you don't want copied over.
Alright I'm going to click Save Changes
and now let's go ahead and find a post
that we want to clone and say that this
is the one I want to work on so let's
clone it and now you see the copy markup
tags and formatting the other one is
down here and click Edit here and now
you see all the formatting has come over
which is great but we also have the
categories that has come over, the tags, if
we had a featured image that would come
over as well and now we can safely work
on this draft without worrying about the
live item getting messed up. If you liked
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