The Yoast Duplicate Post plugin was initially developed by Enrico Battocchi back in 2007, and when he joined the Yoast team, he brought the plugin with him. Even after rebranding, it still offers the same robust functionality.

What does Yoast Duplicate Post do?

Another plugin with a descriptive name: it is used to duplicate posts. When installed, it adds a “Clone” link to the list view of pages, posts and other post types. If you don’t configure anything, it copies the title, content, meta field values, taxonomies, and other important data. There are some things it does not copy, but those are the ones you would not expect in a clone, like comments or the date of the post. It also adds a “bulk action”, so you can clone more than one post easily.

How do I use Yoast Duplicate Post?

Some days ago, I wrote about The Events Calendar and that in the free version, it does not have a recurring events feature. This is where a plugin like this one comes in handy. If you have an event (or post, page, etc.) with very similar content, like you only change the date or some other details, creating such an event every time manually and copy/pasting all meta fields can be quite a task, where you might miss some information. Using the Yoast Duplicate Post plugin, “creating a recurring event manually” becomes a quick task. In my use case, all I need to do after duplicating the event is changing the date and the slug (since the title does not contain the date). But this only takes less than a minute and I can easily prepare many events and only schedule them to be published later.

Conclusion

There is really not a lot more to write about the plugin. In its default configuration, it just duplicates any post, page or other post type. If you want to limit this functionality to only some roles, include or exclude specific fields, that’s when you customize its settings a bit more. But in most cases, you just install and activate it and are good to go.

Have you used it before? Or do you have another plugin with a similar functionality? I know that there are multiple out there. This one just worked best for me and more than 4 million other people.