Lightweight, fast & safe

Overview

Duplicate Post RB does its work when you copy, and stays out of the way the rest of the time.

What it loads

Nothing on the visitors’ side: the plugin adds no scripts or styles to the pages of your site.
In the admin, its scripts load on the screens that use them — the posts lists, the editors and the plugin’s own screen.

What runs in the background

Only what you switch on, through WP-Cron:

Auto copy (PRO) — a copy right after a post is published, so publishing stays fast even with AI steps.
The automatic cleanup (PRO) — on the schedule you choose.
Once a day, old entries of the log are removed.

Copies with AI steps wait for the provider’s answer. The copy dialog makes up to 5 of them per request, so a long run is not cut off half way by the host; WP-CLI and Auto copy have no limit.

What it stores

Profiles as posts of their own type, settings as WordPress options.
The log in a table of its own, which keeps at most 60 days and 10,000 entries.
An AI key encrypted on your server; it is never sent back to the browser. Without OpenSSL on the server no key is stored.

Copies are ordinary posts: they stay when the plugin is switched off.

Safe copies

A user copies only what they may: posts they may edit, of types they may create, children they may read.
What could not be copied — a custom field, a child page, an AI step — is reported, not hidden behind a success; a copy whose AI rewrite or translation did not finish stays a draft.
Rewrite & Republish keeps the rewrite when the original could not be updated.
The cleanup asks before deleting for good, and its automatic run only moves posts to the trash.

Best practices

Keep the plugin updated.
Use profiles instead of changing settings for each job.
Try a new profile — especially with AI or page trees — on one post or on a staging site first.

Documentation