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Programmatically duplicating a WordPress post
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<?php | |
/** | |
* Duplicates a post & its meta and it returns the new duplicated Post ID | |
* @param [int] $post_id The Post you want to clone | |
* @return [int] The duplicated Post ID | |
*/ | |
function duplicate($post_id) { | |
$title = get_the_title($post_id); | |
$oldpost = get_post($post_id); | |
$post = array( | |
'post_title' => $title, | |
'post_status' => 'publish', | |
'post_type' => $oldpost->post_type, | |
'post_author' => $oldpost->post_author, | |
'post_content' => $oldpost->post_content | |
); | |
$new_post_id = wp_insert_post($post); | |
// Copy post metadata | |
$data = get_post_custom($post_id); | |
foreach ( $data as $key => $values) { | |
foreach ($values as $value) { | |
add_post_meta( $new_post_id, $key, maybe_unserialize($value) ); | |
} | |
} | |
return $new_post_id; | |
} |
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