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- Install Duplicate Post and Clone WordPress Posts
From the lesson
“Two everyday headaches waste hours for site owners, and this lesson shows how copying an existing post fixes both. Building a similar post from scratch every week means redoing the same layout over and over. And editing a page that is already public means visitors can catch it half finished. Making a copy solves both: you start from a finished version and edit in safety.” Watch the full lesson →
- Choose What Gets Copied When Duplicating Posts
From the lesson
“When you clone a post, Yoast Duplicate Post decides which pieces come along for the ride. Getting those choices right saves you from awkward mistakes later. The What to copy tab lists the parts of a post, like the title. You tick the ones you want. Permissions decides which people can make clones, and which kinds of content show the clone links.” Watch the full lesson →
- Rewrite and Republish a Live WordPress Page Safely
From the lesson
“Picture your busiest page, the one people find every day. It needs a big rewrite. You have two obvious options, and neither feels safe. Edit the live page in place, and visitors watch your half-finished work appear in real time. Unpublish it to work in private, and the page vanishes from your site. Rewrite and Republish avoids both problems by giving you a private copy to work on.” Watch the full lesson →
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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.
Frequently asked questions
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