Automatic duplication functionality?

Hi Dave. On the post there is a ‘create duplication link’ checkbox when you do a Multisite duplication. This will then automatically keep the two posts in sync when updating the source post in the future.

Enjoy! ??

Hey thanks for the quick reply. I see. So the auto is only after a post has been manually selected for duplication. Shoot, I was hoping there was a trigger to auto-dupe new posts after the Postie plugin created them.

I haven’t dug into the code yet but do you know if the above might be doable with existing code, or with reasonable tweaks?

Thanks again!

(I am the author of Postie) It is likely you’d need to create a postie addon that does whatever logic is necessary to let Multisite Post Duplicator know it should do something. It kind of depends on how @magicstick implemented it.
See https://postieplugin.com/extending/

Ah! Hold on. I created my own add on for this functionality. Basically adds ‘auto mode’. Simply edit the code to add the sites to auto add too (line 8)

https://github.com/magicstickuk/multisite-post-duplicator-auto-post/blob/master/auto.php

You could also just run the core MPD function within Postie like Wayne has indicated

/**
 *
 * This is the main core function on Multisite Post Duplicator that processes the duplication of a post on a network from one
 * site to another
 * 
 * @param int $post_id_to_copy The ID of the source post to copy
 * @param int $new_blog_id The ID of the destination blog to copy to.
 * @param string $post_type The destination post type.
 * @param int $post_author The ID of the requested post author from the destination site.
 * @param string $prefix Optional prefix to be used on the destination post.
 * @param string $post_status The post status for the destination ID. Has to be one of the values returned from the mpd_get_post_statuses() function
 * 
 * @return array An array containing information about the newly created post
 * 
 * Example:
 * 
 *          id           => 20,
 *          edit_url     => 'https://[...]/site1/wp-admin/post.php?post=20&action=edit',
 *          site_name    => 'Another Site'
 * 
 */

mpd_duplicate_over_multisite($post_id_to_copy, $new_blog_id, $post_type, $post_author, $prefix, $post_status)

Excellent! Thank you both!

Ello,

I have 3 multisites. I am looking to duplicate a custom post type from either site 1 or site 2, to site 3. Thus making site 3 have every post from either site.

I tried the code from your link, https://github.com/magicstickuk/multisite-post-duplicator-auto-post/blob/master/auto.php, but I get errors on saving a new post type:

Warning: mysqli_real_escape_string() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in /wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1102

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-includes/wp-db.php:1102) in /wp-admin/post.php on line 198

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-includes/wp-db.php:1102) in /wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1216

Also, only the main site duplicates it (even with the error) but the other site does not.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong here!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by rikkter.

I have the same problem as you rikkter.

I’ll have a look into this guys. Th Lanka for the heads up!