How to Duplicate a Page in WordPress — 4 Working Methods (2026)

WordPress still doesn't ship a Duplicate button on the Pages list. Here are the 4 working methods plus one that adds a proper Duplicate action in one click.

mysite.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page

⚠ No "Duplicate" action on Pages list

Row actions on every page: Edit · Quick Edit · Trash · View
no duplicate_post_as_draft hook registered

WordPress 6.9 · Pages (4) · admin/edit.php?post_type=page

mysite.com · wp-admin

PostsPagesPlugins

✓ Duplicate action added · Pricing — Copy saved as Draft

Pages Add New Page

Pricing — Copy DRAFT Edit · Quick Edit · Duplicate · Trash · View

Home Edit · Quick Edit · Duplicate · Trash · View

About Us Edit · Quick Edit · Duplicate · Trash · View

Pricing Edit · Quick Edit · Duplicate · Trash · View

Contact Edit · Quick Edit · Duplicate · Trash · View

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Add Duplicate action|

Fix it ⟳ ✓ Done

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Missingduplicate_post_as_draft

Hookpage_row_actions

Fix plan

Add 28-line hook to child-theme functions.php (page_row_actions + admin_action_duplicate_post_as_draft)

Result

Duplicate action on all post types. No plugin. Child-theme safe.

✓ PR opened

feat: add Duplicate row action
functions.php · +28 lines

Click SimpleReview → add missing row action → Fix it → one-click page clone · no plugin

Method 1: Block Editor — Copy All Blocks (No Plugin)

Built into WordPress since Gutenberg 5.4, works in every modern install. Copies the page body perfectly, but not the title, slug, featured image, or SEO meta.

1. Open the source page in the block editor (Pages → All Pages → click the title).
2. Click the three-dot Options menu in the top-right toolbar.
3. Choose Copy all blocks. All blocks go to your clipboard as serialized block markup.
4. Create a new page (Pages → Add New), click in the empty content area, and paste (Ctrl/Cmd + V). Every block, including columns, images, and reusable blocks, appears.
5. Set the title, featured image, categories, and save as draft.

Method 2: Yoast Duplicate Post (Best Plugin)

Yoast Duplicate Post is the standard — 4M+ active installs, maintained by the Yoast SEO team, MIT-licensed, no paid tier. It adds Clone and New Draft links under every post and page row in the admin list, and supports any custom post type.

1. Go to Plugins → Add New, search for Yoast Duplicate Post, click Install, then Activate.
2. Go to Pages → All Pages. Hover over any page — you'll see two new row actions: Clone (makes the copy silently) and New Draft (makes the copy and opens it for editing).
3. Fine-tune what gets copied under Settings → Duplicate Post: title, date, slug, excerpt, template, taxonomies, custom fields, featured image. Default is everything except the status (which is reset to draft).
4. For bulk cloning, select multiple pages in the list, choose Clone from the Bulk Actions dropdown, and click Apply.

Alternatives if you don't want Yoast

• Duplicate Page by mndpsingh287 — 1M+ installs, simpler UI, adds only a Duplicate This link.
• Post Duplicator by Metaphor Creations — great for custom post types, lets you remap taxonomies during the copy.

Method 3: functions.php Snippet (No Plugin, Full Clone)

Drop this into your child theme's functions.php (or a site-specific plugin). It adds a Duplicate row action to pages and posts, copies all post fields, taxonomies, and post meta, and redirects you to the new draft.

/**
 * Add a "Duplicate" row action to pages and posts.
 */
add_filter( 'post_row_actions',  'vb_duplicate_link', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'page_row_actions',  'vb_duplicate_link', 10, 2 );
function vb_duplicate_link( $actions, $post ) {
    if ( current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
        $url = wp_nonce_url(
            admin_url( 'admin.php?action=vb_duplicate_post&post=' . $post->ID ),
            'vb_duplicate_' . $post->ID
        );
        $actions['duplicate'] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $url ) . '">Duplicate</a>';
    }
    return $actions;
}

add_action( 'admin_action_vb_duplicate_post', 'vb_duplicate_post' );
function vb_duplicate_post() {
    $id = isset( $_GET['post'] ) ? (int) $_GET['post'] : 0;
    check_admin_referer( 'vb_duplicate_' . $id );
    $post = get_post( $id );
    if ( ! $post ) wp_die( 'Post not found' );

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

    // Copy taxonomies
    foreach ( get_object_taxonomies( $post->post_type ) as $tax ) {
        $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $id, $tax, [ 'fields' => 'slugs' ] );
        wp_set_object_terms( $new_id, $terms, $tax );
    }
    // Copy post meta
    foreach ( get_post_meta( $id ) as $key => $values ) {
        foreach ( $values as $value ) {
            add_post_meta( $new_id, $key, maybe_unserialize( $value ) );
        }
    }

    wp_safe_redirect( admin_url( 'post.php?action=edit&post=' . $new_id ) );
    exit;
}

Method 4: WP-CLI (Headless / Bulk)

Best for scripted workflows, bulk cloning, or sites where wp-admin is locked down. Assumes WP-CLI is installed on your host (most managed WP hosts ship it).

Quick content-only clone:

# Grab the body of post 42, create a new page with the same content
wp post get 42 --field=post_content \
  | wp post create --post_type=page \
      --post_title='Copy of Original' \
      --post_status=draft \
      --post_content=-

Full clone (title + content + excerpt + meta) with a one-liner:

SRC=42
NEW=$(wp post create \
  --post_type=$(wp post get $SRC --field=post_type) \
  --post_title="$(wp post get $SRC --field=post_title) (Copy)" \
  --post_content="$(wp post get $SRC --field=post_content)" \
  --post_excerpt="$(wp post get $SRC --field=post_excerpt)" \
  --post_status=draft \
  --porcelain)

# Copy every meta key from source to new
wp post meta list $SRC --format=json | \
  jq -r '.[] | [.meta_key, .meta_value] | @tsv' | \
  while IFS=$'\t' read -r k v; do wp post meta add "$NEW" "$k" "$v"; done

For bulk cloning (e.g. duplicate every page in a category), wrap it in a loop with wp post list --category=5 --format=ids.

Which Method Should You Use?

The Flip Side: Removing Accidental Duplicates

Half the people searching for "duplicate page wordpress" actually have the opposite problem — they already have a duplicate they didn't want:

• Two Add to Cart buttons on a WooCommerce product page (child theme adds a hook the parent theme already fires).
• A second footer or menu rendering below the first (plugin injects a widget area that the theme also injects).
• Two H1 tags (page builder + theme both output one).
• Two copies of a checkout field, a CTA, or a cookie banner.

These aren't duplicates of a database row — they're duplicates of a rendered element, caused by a theme or plugin calling the same action twice. The fix is always in code, usually one line: either call remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_single_product_summary', ... ), or delete the stray do_action() / wp_nav_menu() / get_template_part() from the template.

The one-click way: SimpleReview

Instead of opening your IDE, grepping for the hook, and writing the right remove_action() priority by hand:

1. Open the page with the duplicate element.
2. Click the SimpleReview extension, then click the duplicate element itself (the second Add-to-cart, the extra footer).
3. Type "Remove this duplicate" and click Fix it. SimpleReview walks the rendered DOM back to the PHP template or plugin that emitted it, finds the responsible hook or template include, and opens a PR that removes it — usually a one-line change in your child theme.

Frequently Asked Questions

Related WordPress Guides

Sources

• wordpress.org — Yoast Duplicate Post plugin
• wordpress.org — Duplicate Page by mndpsingh287
• wordpress.org — Post Duplicator by Metaphor Creations
• wp-cli.org — wp post command reference
• developer.wordpress.org — wp_insert_post()
• developer.wordpress.org — post_row_actions filter