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Overview
Duplicate Post RB can copy a page together with all its child pages, at every level, as a new tree of its own. It is handy for a section of a site — a group of landing pages, a part of the documentation — that you need again.
This is the Children option in a profile’s Elements to copy.
Switch it on
- Open RB Plugins → Duplicate Post → Copy
- Pick the profile — or make a new one, e.g. “Whole section”
- In Elements to copy, tick Children
- Click Save profile
From then on, every copy made with this profile takes the children with it — from the pages list, the editor, the admin bar, the bulk action or WP-CLI. To copy a parent alone once, untick Children in the copy dialog’s Advanced settings.
What is copied
- The parent and all its descendants, at every level.
- Each child is copied with the same profile: the same elements, naming rules and Assistant steps.
- The copies form a new tree: each child copy hangs under the copy of its parent. With Menu order ticked too, the children keep their order.
- Children of any status are copied, except those in the trash. Media attachments and revisions are not children in this sense and are not copied as such.
Good to know
- A user copies only the children they may read — the others are left out, and the copy dialog says how many.
- A child that could not be copied is reported too; the rest of the tree is copied.
- Posts whose parents point at each other in a circle are copied once, never in an endless loop.
- Only hierarchical post types (pages and similar custom types) have children.
- Use a profile of its own for whole trees, so that an everyday copy of a page does not take a large section with it.
