Post Duplicator vs WP Popular Posts

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

WP Popular Posts is a highly customizable plugin that displays your most popular posts. PSA: Plugin has been renamed as WP Popular Posts! See the announcement for more details. Main Features Multiple Popular Posts Lists – You can have several Popular Posts lists on your blog, each with its own settings! Time Range – List those posts of your blog that have been the most popular ones within a specific time range (eg. last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc)! Custom Post-type support – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Popular Products? You can! Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your posts! (see the FAQ section for more details.) Statistics dashboard – See how your popular posts are doing directly from your admin area. Sorting options – Order your popular list by comments, views (default) or average views per day! Custom themes – Out of the box, WP Popular Posts includes some themes so you can style your popular posts list (see Widget Themes for more details). Use your own layout! – WPP is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your popular posts! (see customizing WPP’s HTML markup and How to style WP Popular Posts for more.) Performance Tools! – WP Popular Posts includes a few options to make sure your site’s performance stays as good as ever! (see Performance for more details.) REST API support – Embed your popular posts in your (web) app! (see REST API Endpoints for more.) Elementor support – Are you building sites with Elementor? There’s a popular posts widget for it too! Disqus support – Sort your popular posts by Disqus comments count! Polylang & WPML 3.2+ support – Show the translated version of your popular posts! WordPress Multisite support – Each site on the network can have its own popular posts list! Other Features Shortcode support – Use the [wpp] shortcode to showcase your most popular posts on pages, too! For usage and instructions, please refer to the Installation section. Template tags – Don’t feel like using blocks? No problem! You can still embed your most popular entries on your theme using the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag. Additionally, the wpp_get_views() template tag allows you to retrieve the views count for a particular post. For usage and instructions, please refer to the Installation section. Localization – Translate WPP into your own language. WP-PostRatings support – Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts! PSA: The classic WP Popular Posts widget has reached End-of-Life The classic WP Popular Posts widget doesn’t work very well / at all with the block-based Widgets editor introduced with WordPress 5.8. This new Widgets editor expects WordPress blocks instead of regular WordPress widgets. If you’re using the classic WP Popular Posts widget please replace it with the WP Popular Posts block instead – it has the same features and functionality as the “classic” widget so you won’t be missing anything at all. See the Migration Guide for more details. Bjorn from wplearninglab.com was kind enough to create a video explaining how to use the new block for all of you visual learners: If you cannot (or do not want to) use WordPress blocks on your website then please replace your classic widget with the [wpp] shortcode. Support the Project! If you’d like to support my work and efforts to creating and maintaining more open source projects your donations and messages of support mean a lot! Buy me a coffee | PayPal WP Popular Posts is now also on GitHub! Looking for a Recent Posts widget just as featured-packed as WP Popular Posts? Try Recently! Credits Flame graphic by freevector/Vecteezy.com.