Create the next version of your post while preserving its already online version.
As of April 2026, Prepare New Version is a WordPress copy plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 16% this week. Top alternative: Yoast Duplicate Post.
Sometimes happiness is about small things. What about being able to prepare a new version of your content while its original is still online?
Anticipating and preparing the next version of an article which is already online can quickly become a tedious and risky task. Indeed, most publishers will create a brand new post, fill it in, publish it once it’s ready and finally disable the original article.
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Hi,
I had an article which has grown to more than 30 000 words (55 pages).
Even Though I uses pagination It become impossible to navigate.
I was looking for a way to copy and to cut into copies so that I could generate finally five articles (one article per main chapter), all this keeping all categories and properties.
During this I was needing to go on viewing the old version too.
I could do it rather quickly using “Prepare new version”
Trebly
This plugin takes away may 2-3, maybe 4 other plugins you would have to combine to get all the functionality of this plugin.
It is also much easier to create/prepare a new version and in doing to you are taken to the new version instantly. You can then edit it right there, click save, then click update original and your new version of the page is up!
Such a productivity booster!
Thanks for this addition champ!
Good if you run a site with multiple writers I take? XD
Used it to prepare different versions of posts and it works perfectly.
Very useful.
Works fine with WordPress 3.8.1
Thanks Globalis media systems
We have used it to quickly create a series of test posts for a new theme (using Duplicate). We also use it to prepare new versions of technical doc posts (New Version).
Thx for the work !
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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