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This plugin allows to clone a post or page, or edit it as a new draft.

1. In 'Edit Posts'/'Edit Pages', you can click on 'Clone' link below the post/page title: this will immediately create a copy and return to the list.

2. In 'Edit Posts'/'Edit Pages', you can click on 'New Draft' link below the post/page title.

3. On the post edit screen, you can click on 'Copy to a new draft' above "Cancel"/"Move to trash".

4. While viewing a post as a logged in user, you can click on 'Copy to a new draft' as a dropdown link under "Edit Post" in the admin bar.

2, 3 and 4 will lead to the edit page for the new draft: change what you want, click on 'Publish' and you're done.

Pay attention to the new behaviour! The first way now allows you to clone a post with a single click, speeding up your work if you have many posts to duplicate.

There is also a template tag, so you can put it in your templates and clone your posts/pages from the front-end. Clicking on the link will lead you to the edit page for the new draft, just like the admin bar link.

In the Options page under Settings it is now possible to choose what to copy:

• the original post/page date
• the original post/page status (draft, published, pending), when cloning from the posts list.
• the original post/page excerpt
• which taxonomies and custom fields

You can also set a prefix (or a suffix) to place before (or after) the title of the cloned post/page, and the roles allowed to clone posts or pages.

If you want to contribute to translate the plugin in languages other than English, there is a Launchpad translation project available (you can also send me an e-mail using the form on my website).

If you're a plugin developer, I suggest to read the section made just for you under "Other Notes", to ensure compatibility between your plugin(s) and mine.

Thanks for all the suggestions, bug reports, translations and donations, they're frankly too many to be listed here!

An example of use: I started this for a small movie theater website which I was building. Every Friday there's a new movie showing with a new timetable, and thus a new post: but sometimes a movie stays for more than a week, so I need to copy the last post and change only the dates, leaving movie title, director's and actors' names etc. unchanged. The website is http://www.kino-desse.org and the cinema is located in Livorno, Italy.

Author: lopo