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I've been following Minesh's thread at: https://toolset.com/forums/topic/im-unable-to-duplicate-post-with-its-repeating-field-content-2/
And am trying to understand - is there a way (aside from the above) to duplicate a page, and still retain ALL of the value, including those are inside a repeater?
I'm using Duplicate Page Pro, but would prefer the other duplicate page plugin (in case there is any incompatibility.)
Also, I'm not sure which was the repeater field group in question: galeria-digital or grilla-galeria?
Hi,
Thank you for contacting us and I'd be happy to assist.
I'm afraid, there is no built-in feature available for this, so you'll need some code customization, as Minesh suggested in the other thread.
That code snippet is designed to work when a post is duplicated through the "Yoast Duplicate Post" plugin ( ref: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/ ), but, you can adjust it to work with any post duplicate plugin that offers some customization hook or filter.
And in that thread, "galeria-digital" is the parent post type, and the "grilla-galeria" is the repeating field group in it.
regards,
Waqar
Hi Waqar,
Thank you, that is too bad to hear. Could you please forward to the team as a feature request? It is widely used and very helpful from a workflow UX perspective.
Thanks for the update and I can understand that this can be useful in a number of cases.
I'll be happy to pass this on internally.
Hi Waqar,
Thank you for your reply. I have aimed to replicate Minesh's solution and have been able to partially get it working.
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The main issue seem to be:
1.) The values of the RFG fields are there, but seem like "ghost values", where you can't seem to see or edit them on the backend in the CPT entry
2.) When I hit "publish" and it goes from draft to "published" and from "published" to "draft", there is a critical PHP error that flashes, and when you refresh it, it goes away. Which seems to suggest there is some type of an issue in the status change workflow?
Much appreciate your help!
Kind regards,
I'll need to perform some tests on my website, to see if I can reproduce this.
As soon as this testing completes, I'll share my findings with you.
Thank you for your patience.
Thank you for waiting.
On my test website, I was able to make this work, using updated code that uses the "dp_duplicate_post" hook from the "Yoast Duplicate Post" plugin:
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Example:
function my_custom_dp_duplicate_post( $new_post_id, $post ) {
$parent_post = 'book';
$rfg_post = 'book-rfg';
if ( get_post_type( $new_post_id ) == $parent_post ) {
$rfg_ids = toolset_get_related_posts($post->ID, $rfg_post,'parent',999,0,array(),'post_id','child');
if(count($rfg_ids) > 0 ) {
foreach($rfg_ids as $k=>$v):
// Copy post metadata
$data = get_post_custom($v);
$my_post = array(
'post_title' => get_the_title($v),
'post_content' => '',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_author' => $post->post_author,
'post_type' => $rfg_post
);
// Insert the post into the database
$insert_post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post );
// connecting RFG item to newly cloned $post_id
toolset_connect_posts($rfg_post, $new_post_id, $insert_post_id );
foreach ( $data as $key => $values) {
foreach ($values as $value) {
add_post_meta( $insert_post_id, $key, $value );
}
}
endforeach;
}
}
}
add_action( 'dp_duplicate_post', 'my_custom_dp_duplicate_post', 50, 2 );
Please change "book" and "book-rfg" with your parent and child/repeating field group post type slugs, respectively.
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