Title: Copy post
Last modified: August 18, 2025

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# Copy post

 *  [KNEET](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kneet/)
 * (@kneet)
 * [9 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copy-post/)
 * Hi
   When I copy a post, the amount of views get copied too.This of course makes
   no sense because the new post is new and should have zero views.Is there a way
   to fix this?Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/)
 * (@dfactory)
 * [9 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copy-post/#post-18605804)
 * Hi,
 * Making a copy of a post is not a WordPress feature, so you’re using a plugin 
   for that – question is which one? Additionally PVC does not store data in post
   meta – it is stored in a separate table which does not have a new record created
   when you make a copy. In other words, post views should not be the same for a
   duplicated post – it should be 0. Maybe your theme/copy plugin does something
   extra which does not come from PVC itself? Can you ask the developers of the 
   copy post feature about it and let us know their feedback?
 *  Thread Starter [KNEET](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kneet/)
 * (@kneet)
 * [9 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copy-post/#post-18606411)
 * Hi
   Makes sense.I currently use: **Yoast Duplicate Post**. I found not much in
   settings, however it has a settings/field that says ‘don’t copy these fields’.
   So we could use that? Cheers
 *  Plugin Author [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/)
 * (@dfactory)
 * [9 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copy-post/#post-18627937)
 * I doubt that would work. The views count is assigned to a post by their ID (post
   ID). When you create a new post (by adding new or duplicating, does not matter)
   a new post entry is created with a new ID in the database. There should be no
   respective post views records for this new post, unless it is stored in post 
   meta. PVC does not store views count in post meta, as mentioned above, but your
   theme can do that additionally (for some reason) and display it in a custom way,
   even though the copied post would not have a views count data assigned in PVC.
 * So the best answer would be to find out what happens in your theme related to
   the views count – is there anything added, customized? Or the data is coming 
   from PVC as is.

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