Post Duplicator vs Post Status Notifier Lite

Save Time. Work Smarter. Duplicate Any Post Type with Ease. Post Duplicator is the ultimate WordPress plugin for quickly creating exact duplicates of any post type in your WordPress site. Whether you’re working with standard posts, pages, or custom post types, this plugin makes it effortless to clone content while preserving all taxonomies, custom fields, and metadata. Key Features: Universal Post Type Support – Works with every post type WordPress supports, including custom post types from your favorite plugins and themes Complete Data Preservation – Automatically copies all taxonomies, custom fields, metadata, and featured images Bulk Duplication – Select and duplicate multiple posts at once with individual settings per post Multiple Clones – Create multiple copies of a single post simultaneously (up to 50 clones) Flexible Duplication Options – Customize title, slug, status, author, date, post type, and parent for each duplicate Featured Image Management – Set, replace, or remove featured images directly in the duplication modal Smart Defaults – Configure default settings that apply to all duplications (draft status, current user as author) Post Types Configuration – Control which post types can be duplicated and which appear in the “Post Type” dropdown menu Permission Control – Granular control over who can duplicate posts with role-based permissions Modern Interface – Beautiful modal interface with live editing and expandable settings Cross-Post Type Duplication – Convert posts to different post types during duplication Hierarchical Post Support – Set parent posts for pages and hierarchical custom post types One-Click Operation – Duplicate posts from the posts list, edit screen, or block editor toolbar Perfect For: Developers – Quickly generate test content and dummy data for development using bulk or multiple clone features Content Managers – Create content templates and variations efficiently with one-click duplication Bloggers – Repurpose successful posts with different angles or formats using multiple clones E-commerce – Duplicate product variations and bulk duplicate similar listings across categories Content Marketers – Create A/B testing variations with the multiple clones feature Site Migrations – Bulk duplicate posts when restructuring or migrating content Multilingual Sites – Works seamlessly with WPML and Polylang for multilingual content What Gets Duplicated: Post content and formatting Title and slug (with customizable suffixes or full editing) All custom fields and metadata Categories, tags, and custom taxonomies Featured images (with ability to change or remove) Post format and excerpt Comment and ping status Menu order Post parent (for hierarchical post types) What Doesn’t Get Duplicated: Comments (by design – prevents duplicate comment threads) Post ID and GUID (new unique identifiers assigned) How to Use: Single Duplication: Hover over any post and click “Duplicate [Post Type]” in the row actions, or click the “Duplicate Post” button in the Gutenberg editor Multiple Clones: In the duplication modal, click the copy icon to create multiple copies of a single post (up to 50 clones) Bulk Duplication: Select multiple posts using checkboxes, choose “Duplicate” from the Bulk Actions dropdown, then configure each post individually Customize Settings: Edit title, slug, status, author, date, post type, featured image, and parent for each duplicate Configure Defaults: Go to Settings > Post Duplicator to set default status, author, date, and title/slug suffixes Configure Post Types: Go to Settings > Post Duplicator > Post Types to control which post types can be duplicated and which appear in the “Post Type” dropdown menu Default Settings: The plugin works immediately with sensible defaults: * Duplicated posts are created as Drafts (prevents accidental publishing) * Title suffix: “Copy” * Slug suffix: “copy” * Author: Current User * Date: Current Time All defaults can be customized in Settings > Post Duplicator. Integration: Post Duplicator works seamlessly with: * WPML and Polylang (multilingual support) * WooCommerce (excludes review counts automatically) * ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) – preserves all field data * WP Customer Area (special file duplication support) * All custom post types and taxonomies Security: Users without publish_posts capability cannot publish duplicates (forced to Pending) Non-authors cannot duplicate unpublished posts from other users Granular permission system controls who can duplicate posts All data is sanitized and validated before duplication Developer-Friendly: Includes hooks and filters for easy customization: * mtphr_post_duplicator_created action * mtphr_post_duplicator_meta_{$key}_enabled filter * mtphr_post_duplicator_meta_value filter

Notify every WordPress post change! You want to be notified when one of your contributors have submitted a new post for revision or an editor published one? Vice versa you want to notify your contributors when their posts got published? This is just the beginning of what you can achieve with Post Status Notifier (PSN)! It works with all kind of custom post types, supports all custom taxonomies like categories and tags other plugins are using. You can grab all these taxonomy values and custom fields attached to a post and use them as placeholders in your custom notification texts. PSN has a powerful conditional template syntax featuring many filters and functions to get the most out of the placeholders! Define as many notification rules as you need with all kind of settings, like custom CC, BCC and FROM emails addresses. PSN is extensible! Build your custom module to implement a new notification service. PSN works great with plugins like WP Job Manager (read more), Calendarize.it (read more), Crowdfunding by Astoundify (read more) or Advanced Custom Fields, just to name a few. The possibilities are endless. Want to automate your publishing workflow with Buffer? No problem! Plugin homepage: https://www.ifeelweb.de/wp-plugins/post-status-notifier/ Always up-to-date online documentation: https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/ FAQ: https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/faq.html Features Get the Premium version for all features Define custom notification rules Support for posts, pages and all custom post types Support for all post status values Create custom email texts with support for many placeholders Manipulate placeholders content with filters to completely adjust the output to your needs (uses the filters of the famous PHP template engine Twig / limited to one filter in the Lite version) WordPress multisite compatible Premium version: HTML emails / mail templates Premium version: Mail queue / deferred sending Premium version: Categories filter: Include or exclude categories (even from custom post types) from notifications Premium version: Supports SMTP. You find all necessary SMTP settings to connect your SMTP server in the options section. Premium version: Supports user roles (custom roles too) as email recipients Premium version: Optional logging: Logs status changes based on your rules Premium version: Dashboard widget showing the latest log entries (can be disabled) Premium version: Import / Export of your notification rules Premium version: Copy rules Premium version: Conditional template syntax (Manual) Premium version: Extensible (Manual) Premium version: Custom sender e-mail. Define the notification sender (FROM) per rule or as a default in the options. Premium version: Dynamic recipients Premium version: Late execution to support frontend submission plugins as well as possible Premium version: Rule trigger limitations Comprehensive documentation Included translations: english, german Support in english and german via Zendesk: ifeelwebde.zendesk.com Tested on Windows, Mac OS and Linux Built on our ifeelweb.de WordPress Plugin Framework The Lite version features two notification rules and one CC email What customers say “Great plugin, look through maybe 7 plugins until found this one and it is the best.” – misolek “just got the pro version and it’s working great, awesome plugin man and thanks for your excellent support” – nomadone “This plugin is very intuitive and works great. Very helpful support. Top notch!” – Rick “Thank you for your great support – the plugin works great now and has accomplished what 5 other commercial and free plugins couldn’t – to provide simple and configurable email notifications for WP status changes.” – Jon “just got the pro version and it’s working great, awesome plugin man and thanks for your excellent support” – nomadone Comment-Source Configuration Go to the new option page Post Status Notifier Lite. Here you can define custom notification rules. Here you can find a detailed documentation: https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/ Info If you find any bugs please use the comments on the plugin’s homepage. Please also contact me for feature requests and ideas how to improve this plugin. Any other reactions are welcome too of course.