`duplicate_post_excludelist_filter` not working as expected

(@bhkh)

(I posted this in a previous thread, but it was already marked as resolved)

Hello!

I am trying to follow your instructions from this previous thread,. To my custom plugin I have added the following

/**  * Filters out custom fields from being duplicated in addition to the defaults. * * @param array $meta_excludelist The default exclusion list, based on the “Do not copy these fields” setting, plus some other field names. * * @return array The custom fields to exclude. */function my_custom_fields_filter( $meta_excludelist ) {    // Merges the defaults array with our own array of custom fields.    return array_merge( $meta_excludelist, [ 'ig_es_is_post_notified', 'bluesky_shared' ] );}add_filter( 'duplicate_post_excludelist_filter', 'my_custom_fields_filter' );

However when I click “Rewrite & Republish” and the post opens for republishing in the custom fields section I still see this:

My understanding of your instructions was that these fields should not be duplicated because of the function you recommended.

I am confident that my custom plugin is active.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

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Mushrit Shabnam
(@611shabnam)

1 year ago

Hi @bhkh

The filter duplicate_post_excludelist_filter works when you use the clone or new draft option. So you need to modify the code to make the filter available for Rewrite and Republish feature.

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Thread Starter bhkh
(@bhkh)

1 year ago

Thanks!

Are you able to help me out with that? It’s not clear to me from that page how I would do that.
Thread Starter bhkh
(@bhkh)

12 months ago
I can see that in src\post-duplicator.php there is create_duplicate_for_rewrite_and_republish
```
public function create_duplicate_for_rewrite_and_republish( WP_Post $post ) {
		$options  = [
			'copy_title'      => true,
			'copy_date'       => true,
			'copy_name'       => false,
			'copy_content'    => true,
			'copy_excerpt'    => true,
			'copy_author'     => true,
			'copy_menu_order' => true,
			'use_filters'     => false,
		];
		$defaults = $this->get_default_options();
		$options  = \wp_parse_args( $options, $defaults );

		$new_post_id = $this->create_duplicate( $post, $options );

		if ( ! \is_wp_error( $new_post_id ) ) {
			$this->copy_post_taxonomies( $new_post_id, $post, $options );
			$this->copy_post_meta_info( $new_post_id, $post, $options );
```
etc.

The copy_post_meta_info seems to be called. And that is where duplicate_post_excludelist_filter is used.

So I don’t see why it’s not working.

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