Yoast Duplicate Post: WordPress Plugin Tutorial

This Yoast Duplicate Post tutorial shows you how cloning existing content saves hours and protects your live pages. Instead of rebuilding the same layout every week or editing a published page in full view of visitors, you copy a finished version and work in safety. You'll learn the plugin's three actions and the standout Rewrite and Republish workflow that updates live content cleanly.

What you'll learn

Two everyday tasks quietly eat a site owner's time: recreating similar posts from scratch and editing pages that are already public. The Yoast Duplicate Post plugin fixes both by letting you clone content and, crucially, revise a live post as a private draft before swapping it in. After this course you'll be able to duplicate any post or page, control exactly which fields and taxonomies get copied so clones come out clean, and use Rewrite and Republish to update published pages without visitors ever seeing a half-finished edit. It's a small workflow change that makes routine publishing far less tedious.

Inside the course

• Installing Duplicate Post & Basic Cloning
• Settings: Controlling What Gets Copied
• Rewrite & Republish: The Star Workflow

Who this course is for

This is for bloggers, content editors, and site owners who publish regularly and reuse layouts or update live pages often. It's beginner-friendly and quick. If you'd rather read first, our free written tutorials cover the same workflows.

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