Not Sure How To Duplicate in Bulk

You can batch process the duplications on the page list as long as you have the required privalages in the other sites) However I would do the dups in batches of 50 or so because depending on your server setup the process might timeout.

‘Push to’ process if FAR more efficient way of doing things. In terms of the number of queries required just to serve up the basic options.

Thanks for the input! Good luck on your duplications!

You can batch process the duplications on the page list.

(1) Ok, thanks @magicstick. But I am not sure what that all means. How do I do what you are stating?

(2) And my push/pull was just a comment on documentation, etc. It is not intuitive as to what site to activate the plugin on — Source or Target. My intuition caused me to go to the target site, but it is the opposite — you need to activate the plugin on the source site. Just pointing it out for clarity.

OK. Lets start at point 2: I think you are misunderstanding what a multisite network is. In a multisite network once you install a plugin on the network root dashboard the plugins functionality it is automatically available in all sites within that network.

Pojnt 1: Go to https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/multisite-post-duplicator/screenshots/ and look at the image ‘batch processing’ this will give you an idea how it works.

Finally. Looking back on your original statement:

I need to duplicate all 365 Published Posts from one WPMS to another WPMS.

If by this you mean to want to copy pages from one multisite network to another multisite network rather than copy pages from one site within a network to another site within the same network then this plugin is not what you are looking for. Not sure how you would achieve this.

Hope this helps! ??

We’re clearly not on the same page.

I need to copy (or duplicate) POSTS not PAGES.

I understand what a MS Network is on WP so just disregard my suggestion to you on your documentation.

Post/pages/custom post types. They are all duplicatable to other sites within a network in this plugin and all work in exactly the same way. ??

Ok, the fog is lifting here as I discover how to work with this plugin.

So I went to my POSTS listing and selected 1 of my POSTS as a test. I see in the Bulk Actions pulldown that I can Duplicate the POST to another site in my WPMS. Great — that is why I installed this plugin!

So I duplicated it.

The end result is problematic.

(1) The Published POST came over to the target site as “Draft”, not “Published”. Ok, I’ll have to Bulk Edit and Publish them in total. Not too bad.

Here are the real problems:

(2) I am logged in as Super Admin. I did not create the POSTS on the source site. Another authorized user (“Editor”) did. So the duplicated POST came over as having been created by me. Not good.

(3) The Categories did not duplicate with the POST. Also, not good.

(4) The Tags did not duplicate with the POST. Not good again.

What I am doing wrong or missing?

Doing batch duplication will alway attribute the new page to the person duplicating. Tags and categories should have came across tho. Check the plugin settings page for your desired behaviour.

Regarding the status of the destination post. I’m going to be releasing functionality to better control this soon.

(5) And it also loses its Published Date from the source site.

Ok. Bottom-line: the plugin does copy the POST from one site to another. It just fails to bring all the important META Data along with it — Author, Categories, Tags, and Publish Date.

So it only duplicates Post Content in this version.

Nice plugin though. Good luck with its development. I just have a more pressing need.

Best & sincerest regards.

And thanks for giving this free plugin a try. The plugin does copy tags categories however batch duplication doesn’t allow for author atributation. And published date is published date. I think you need some sort of site duplicator rather than individual page/post duplicator. Good luck. And all the best.

Hello we have a similar problem to original poster. After bulk duplication from one site (PL) to another (EN) the portfolio items weren’t assigned to their original categories. OK this was easy to fix. But the real problem is that posts from categories aren’t available with prev and next buttons when viewing the single post.
You can see behaviour here:
original:
viptravelwroclaw.pl/oferta
site with cloned portfolio posts:
viptravelwroclaw.pl/en/offer
When you enter a specific offer in english site, the next and prev buttons links to posts only duplicated one by one from post menu and not from bulk clone.
Is there any way to fix this AFTER clonning? Looks to me that some meta attribute is missing after bulk duplicate. But don’t know which and how to fix this. Please help.

Hi is there any change we could get a support on this?

Ok I think i know what’s wrong. When I bulk cloned posts the new one have the same ID as one of the image in gallery. Seems like duplicator increased ID but it is some other way than when cloning one by one. Is this true?