Clone Existing Post Type

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Last updated by Luo Yang 6 years, 2 months ago.

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September 12, 2018 at 7:21 pm #1106826

davidM-44

I have two post types that are very similar, and it would sure be helpful to be able to create one of them completely, and then clone it to create the second one.

Another example: The "Post" type already exists, but I want to create a variant of "Post" called "Video Post". Obviously, a full clone of the original type would make the creation process much easier, and much less error prone, especially if there are only minor changes in the clone.

Thanks,

David McLeod

September 12, 2018 at 7:22 pm #1106827

davidM-44

Forgot to mention...obviously, it would be great to extend this cloning idea to views as well. So, in my example above, my "Post Views" would be cloned to "Video Post Views", which I could then easily modify as needed.

Thanks,

David

September 13, 2018 at 6:42 am #1107491

Luo Yang

Dear David,

Q1) Clone Existing Post Type
Yes, you are right, there isn't such a built-in feature within Types plugin, it should be a feature request, our developers will evaluate it

Q2) it would be great to extend this cloning idea to views as well
This is already a built-in feature of Views plugin, you can try these:
Dashboard-> Views
find the specific view, move mouse on the view's title, you should be able to see the "Duplicate" link, it does the same work as your request.