When cloning a post using “WP Extended” WP plug-in, watch out!
I get parent – original overwritten when publishing a clone on the same date as parent. I am not 100% certain that date is the issue, but from experience so far it seems to be that.
Example scenario: I create a duplicate post of a “donor” posted days ago and publish it, works as expected. But if duplicate the last post same day and publish it. The result is the updated “donor” post (new title and contents, same original URL) not the new and unique post.
SOLUTION: When I need to publish more than one post with duplication on the same day. I use the older source “donor” post published on previous date for every new clone. Do not use the cloning is sequence, it will just update the contents in prior cloned post.
Disaster recovery: Original post content is not destroyed, it looks that it is stored in database as a prior revision version of the post. So, I use phpMyAdmin to salvage the original content from database.
I use “Duplicate” functionality as templating mainly when I need to copy post values and properties like categories and tags, not much for content replication.
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