Clone bug in 3.0.3

Hi,
I need more info about that, it’s the first time it’s been reported.

What post type are you trying to copy: Post, Page, or a custom post created by a plugin/theme?
What options are enabled in “Settings”->”Duplicate post”, first tab? Are “Children” or “Attachments” enabled?

Hi there,

That’s a swift reply ??

The post-type does not seem to matter. Cloning pages, posts and custom posts all give the same problem. Furthermore, Children or Attachments are not enabled. I deactivated the plugin and restored the older 2.6 which works fine.

Hi,
I’m sorry about that… the thing is, the code that does the actual cloning hasn’t change very much, so I can’t see what’s going wrong…
Can you tell me which theme are you using and which plugins?

Sure, these are my settings:

Active premium theme:
Kalium 1.9.5

Other plugins:
Advanced Custom Fields 4.4.11
Advanced Custom Fields: Flexible Content Field 1.1.1
Advanced Custom Fields: Gallery Field 1.1.1
Advanced Custom Fields: Repeater Field 1.1.1
Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order 1.4.8
Contact Form 7 4.5.1
Contact Form 7: Dynamic Text Extension 2.0.1
Loco Translate 2.0.9
Portfolio Post Type 0.9.3
Slider Revolution 5.2.6
WPBakery Visual Composer 4.12.1

Hopefully you can see what goes wrong.

For what it’s worth I was seeing the same error today. After I hit “Clone” on a simple post, there would be a long delay, followed by a “too many redirects” error. Upon going back into the “All Posts” section, I found 25 copies of the post I attempted to clone. I have simply disabled the plugin for now and am hoping to learn more via this thread. Thanks….

Hi @markmacallister,
does your system have anything in common with @lendumont’s?

was it the first time you cloned something since the last upgrade?

Greetings:

Thanks for your note. Very little in common actually:

Virtue Premium Theme 3.8.9
Advanced Page Manager 1.6
Better Delete Revision 1.6.1
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget 2.2.12
Custom Meta Widget 1.4.8
Cyclone Slider Pro (packaged with Virtue) 2.7.0
Duplicate Post 3.0.3 (currently disabled)
Easy 404 Redirect 1.1
Enable Media Replace 3.0.5
Enhanced Media Library Pro 2.3.1
Folders 1.3.6
Hide Title 1.0.4
Kadene Slider (packaged with Virtue) 2.1.1
ManageWP – Worker 4.2.12
Media Library Categories 1.5.3
MimeTypes Link Icons 3.2.4
No Future Posts 1.4
PageBuilder by SiteOrigin 2.4.18
Post Expiring 1.4
Relevanssi 3.5.6.1
SG CachePress 2.3.11
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle 1.7.1
Slider Revolution (packaged with Virtue) 5.2.2
Toolbar Publish Button 1.5.2
WP Edit 4.0

Also, please note that today marked the first time I have tried to clone a post since I updated your plugin. Previous versions of the plugin worked with no problems in the above configuration.

Thanks, let me know if you need anything else.

mark

Hi @lendumont and @markmacallister,
I can’t reproduce the bug, but I have an hypothesis to test.
If I send you a version 3.0.3 patched with some additional code which I think might solve the issue, would you have the chance to test it?
I know that if it doesn’t work it would create a lot of copies and you’d have to delete them by hand, but it would be very helpful…

Thanks in advance

Hello Lopo,

Sure, you can send me the patched version and I will give it a go.
Thanks for your efforts.

Greetings Lopo:

Thanks for your note. I’d be happy to give the patched version a try. Please go ahead and email me the ZIP or the download URL.

Best regards

Mark MacAllister

Just a thought. Could the issue be related to the PHP version or other PHP extensions? I’m using 7.0

Hi,
it shouldn’t, I use 7.0 in a couple of projects.
I slowed down a bit because of some personal (happy) matters, just give some more days to assemble a test version, I’m pretty confident we can solve this!

Hi,
version 3.1, out now, should probably fix the issue.
Can you guys confirm so I can mark the issue as resolved?
Thanks in advance!

Greetings Lopo:

Just tested it on a 4.7 installation…all looks good, no evidence of any problems. The bulk feature is nice. Thanks so much for attending to this.

Hi!
I’m glad to hear that!
Thanks for reporting the issue!