Title: Deliberately duplicate posts?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Deliberately duplicate posts?

 *  Resolved [ecstatic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecstatic/)
 * (@ecstatic)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dleiberately-duplicate-posts/)
 * Hi, I’d like to be able to make a post based on an existing post, but with say
   a word changed in the title, and a word or two in the body changed, but otherwise
   identical including categories, links etc. To put it another way I just want 
   to create an exact copy of a post and then edit a few small changes to the copy
   then save it as a completely new post – leaving the original post intact. I want
   to do this a lot, in fact if possible I’d like to create the majority of my posts
   this way, but with subtle differences each time hence the need to manually edit
   something already existing.
 * I thought this would be easy but I can’t spot it.

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 *  [eldeuce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eldeuce/)
 * (@eldeuce)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dleiberately-duplicate-posts/#post-653392)
 * just stopping by and was wondering what your reasoning for this was?
    If it’s
   for SEO, spiders are smart enough to notice duplicate content. You’re probably
   on the express train to getting banned by Google.
 *  Thread Starter [ecstatic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecstatic/)
 * (@ecstatic)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dleiberately-duplicate-posts/#post-653393)
 * No, I’m a schoolteacher and I use my journal for lesson planning, one post per
   lesson, 5 posts per day. Since I teach the same lessons over and over to different
   teaching groups it would save me a lot of time if I could just use the same plans
   over but re-assign them to different classes.
    Imagine yesterday (last year /
   whatever) I taught an algebra lesson and now I want to teach it again to a different
   group. I want to take the existing lesson plan and add it to today’s diary with
   the new teaching group’s name at the top plus whatever minor changes I might 
   want to make to the lesson plan. Since these go round and round if I could do
   this it would save me a massive amount of work.
 *  [Enrico Battocchi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lopo/)
 * (@lopo)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dleiberately-duplicate-posts/#post-653655)
 * I’ve made [this plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-post/),
   I hope it could be useful for your needs.
 *  Thread Starter [ecstatic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecstatic/)
 * (@ecstatic)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dleiberately-duplicate-posts/#post-653670)
 * Many thanks lopo. Happily I’d already found your plugin and have been using it
   for a couple of weeks now. Have to say it seems pretty near perfect – and it 
   is saving me as much work as I’d hoped!
 * And now it’s the holidays. Aaaaaaaaaaaaand…relax.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [ecstatic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecstatic/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dleiberately-duplicate-posts/#post-653670)
 * Status: resolved

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