Grade A

Clone Posts

Name: Clone Posts
Rating: 4.1 (22 reviews)
Author: George Pattichis

⤓ Download v2.1.4 on WordPress.org ↗

by George Pattichisupdated 2026-01-22✨The Quiet Achiever

Speed up your workflow until your page builder breaks.

HealthyGrowing

73/100

The plugin provides helpful bulk cloning features but suffers from compatibility issues and inconsistent meta copying.

Loved24/40

Trustworthy9/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained15/18

Momentum11/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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add_filter( 'post_row_actions', 'snippet_clone_post_link', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'page_row_actions', 'snippet_clone_post_link', 10, 2 );
function snippet_clone_post_link( $actions, $post ) {
    if ( current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
        $url = wp_nonce_url(
            add_query_arg( [ 'action' => 'snippet_clone_post', 'post' => $post->ID ], admin_url( 'admin.php' ) ),
            'snippet_clone_post_' . $post->ID
        );
        $actions['clone'] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $url ) . '">Clone</a>';
    }
    return $actions;
}

add_action( 'admin_action_snippet_clone_post', 'snippet_do_clone_post' );
function snippet_do_clone_post() {
    $post_id = absint( $_GET['post'] ?? 0 );
    check_admin_referer( 'snippet_clone_post_' . $post_id );

    $post = get_post( $post_id );
    if ( ! $post || ! current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
        wp_die( 'Not allowed.' );
    }

    $new_id = wp_insert_post( [
        'post_title'   => $post->post_title . ' (Copy)',
        'post_content' => $post->post_content,
        'post_excerpt' => $post->post_excerpt,
        'post_type'    => $post->post_type,
        'post_status'  => 'draft',
        'post_author'  => get_current_user_id(),
    ] );

    // Copy post meta.
    foreach ( get_post_meta( $post_id ) as $key => $values ) {
        foreach ( $values as $value ) {
            add_post_meta( $new_id, $key, maybe_unserialize( $value ) );
        }
    }

    wp_redirect( admin_url( 'edit.php?post_type=' . $post->post_type ) );
    exit;
}

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Active installs

~15,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+

→ on track for 20k+in ~1 year

Rating

4.3★

22 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+25%

Growing fast

36 → 45 installs/day

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +25% in the last year

36/day a year ago→45/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Clone Posts is generally praised for its straightforward bulk-cloning and meta-copying capabilities, but users report compatibility limits with certain builders, default page settings, and occasional bugs like blank screens.

What people like

+Clones post meta
+Provides a simple single-search interface for cloning many pages
+Supports bulk cloning of posts/pages
+Works as expected

Common complaints

−Cannot duplicate posts built with the Breakdance builder
−Default setting only activates for posts, not pages
−Produces a blank screen after cloning a page
−Does not copy meta properties for custom post types (e.g., ACF fields)

Review trustMostly organic

4.06★Verified rating — drops from 4.30★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
27%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2025-01-102025-10-072026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 22 total

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 22 analyzed

2025-12-11★★★★★Doesn't work with Breakdance Builder clayray
2024-12-16★★★★★Also copies custom fields!George Kpax
2023-03-22★★★★★All you need fbot
2023-03-03★★★★★Smart time saver revixi5
2022-12-01★★★★★Works great xeniajfp
2022-09-16★★★★★A real time saver maxavid8061-shot
2022-09-15★★★★★Great tool Galle Lagdei1-shot
2022-09-03★★★★★Very useful plugin hugheyharry1-shot
2022-09-02★★★★★Very useful fieldsanthony911-shot
2022-08-03★★★★★Great plugin!sandraalkiviadous

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-01-22v2.1.4
2025-06-29v2.1.3
2024-11-30v2.1.2
2024-01-11v2.1.1
2023-12-22v2.1.0
2023-03-14v2.0.4
2022-08-02v2.0.3
2022-02-10v2.0.2

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

Mean release-day peak (30d)

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-26.1%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

50%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

2.83

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

77%

5★ share in analyzed sample

27%

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

—

Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.32 → 4.06★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered