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Post Cloner

by Evan Herman · Uncategorized

Also makes 14 other plugins · 114.1K+ installs across the portfolio →

Post cloner allows you to easily make complete duplicates of any post on your site. That includes posts, pages and custom post types.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
52 Health · D
Maintenance 13/100
Rating quality 83/100
Support 70/100

52 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

61 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 21/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 63/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 990 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+28% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

285

now · peak 1.0K

29230d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Post Cloner · #5533 you Post Duplicator · #221 Duplicate Menu · #445 Yoast Duplicate Post · #14

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

292per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

4.2y ago

latest release · v0.1.1

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.1.1 · 4.2y ago0.1 · 11.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 63% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 63%
v0.1 37%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.7K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-10-16 · 1,424 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
2.7y ago
Added
2015-09-18 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Alex Troll
    2.7y ago

    Cloning all post meta too!

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  2. Gabor Lippert
    4.0y ago

    I just really doN’t understand the low download number – I’ve been using this plugin for about 5-6 years (if not more), never had any issues with it, it does its job perfectly and wonderfully, no ads in the admin, no freemium model, no tons of unnecessary options, a simple, logically structured, clean UI, and I’m 100% sure I could add a few other items to the “Why am I using this specific plugin” list. Post cloner is a perfect product, and a perfect example of how plugin development for an open-source, free software should work in a better world. Oh, not to mention, it has one of the loveliest plugin profle picture in the whole repo!! 🐑✨❤️

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  3. luxxlabs
    9.5y ago

    Massive time saver! I use this with EDD they offer a payed for version of duplicate… Kind of feel ripped off knowing that this should be a built in function. I can not thank you enough 🙂

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  4. dorothystuarta
    10.2y ago

    Really nice plugin It also works on custom post types.

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  5. sillinguist
    10.6y ago

    The one issue I have found is that when creating custom post types with PODS, that when a custom field such as “Relationship [type: pick]” where the value is another post type, the selected values are not copied over.

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  6. centerwork
    10.7y ago

    I would highly recommend it. I’ve tried others with no success however. This one is easy to install works as described.

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  7. Antonio D.
    10.8y ago

    Too simple, Too good. Post and Pages ready in a few seconds.

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  8. pimo
    10.8y ago

    works even on custom pages built with page builder, awesome!

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-12-05 CVE-2025-62865 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.0 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.4.2

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-12-27 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1036 days in tier
  2. 2023-02-25 3K+ → 2K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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