Settings

All Chada Duplicate options are in Settings → Chada Duplicate. Changes take effect immediately — there is no Save Changes button per section; all settings are on one page with a single save action.

Post types

A checklist of all public post types registered on your site. Only post types that are ticked will show the Duplicate row action, bulk action, and editor button.

Default: post, page, and product are enabled. Custom post types registered by themes or other plugins appear in the list but are unchecked until you enable them.

Default status

Controls the post status assigned to every new duplicate.

• Draft (default) — the clone is always created as a draft, regardless of the original’s status. This is the safest option: you cannot accidentally publish a copy before reviewing it.
• Inherit — the clone gets the same status as the original. If you duplicate a published post, the clone is also published immediately.

Title suffix

The text appended to the cloned post’s title. Default: (copy). You can change this to anything you like — for example [DRAFT], - Clone, or leave the field empty to copy the title exactly.

The suffix is appended once. If you duplicate a post that already has the suffix in its title, the suffix is appended again — rename the title after duplicating if this is undesirable.

Author

Determines which WordPress user is set as the author of the cloned post.

• Copy original author (default) — the clone has the same author as the original. Useful when duplicating content as an admin on behalf of a specific author.
• Assign to current user — the clone is assigned to whoever triggered the duplicate action. Useful when multiple editors are working from shared templates.

Copy comments

Whether to copy all comments (including threaded replies) from the original post to the clone. Default: off.

This is off by default because in most workflows a duplicated post is a new piece of content — existing reader comments from the original are rarely relevant to the clone. Enable it if you are migrating content between post types or need a full archival copy.

Copy prices

Applies to WooCommerce products only. Whether to copy the regular price and sale price to the cloned product. Default: on.

Turn this off if your workflow involves creating product drafts from a master template and always setting a fresh price before publishing — this prevents a stale price from being published accidentally.

Excluded meta keys

A list of post meta keys that should not be copied to the clone, one key per line. The following keys are excluded by default because they are internal WordPress fields that should never transfer to a new post:

• _edit_lock — tracks which user currently has the post locked for editing.
• _edit_last — records the ID of the last user to save the post.
• _wp_old_slug — stores the previous permalink slug after a rename; transferring it would create a redirect conflict.
• _wp_old_date — tracks the previous date-based permalink; same reasoning as _wp_old_slug.

Add any additional meta keys you want to exclude — for example, plugin-specific keys that store transient state, external IDs, or cached values that should not carry over to a new post.

Allowed roles

A checklist of WordPress roles that are permitted to use the Duplicate action. Users whose role is not in this list will not see the Duplicate row action, bulk action, or editor button.

Default: Administrator, Editor, and Shop Manager.

In addition to the role check, the plugin also verifies that the user has the edit_post capability for the specific post being duplicated. Both checks must pass — being in an allowed role is not sufficient if the user cannot edit that individual post.