What happened?
Summary
When duplicating multiple entries in Craft CMS, the duplicated entries are created as drafts. This is understandable as a default behaviour, but it becomes cumbersome when the duplicated entries are intentionally meant to be reused and published exactly as they are.
Problem
If a user duplicates a larger number of entries, for example 20–30 entries, each duplicated draft currently has to be opened individually in order to publish it.
This creates unnecessary manual work, especially in content structures where entries are duplicated deliberately and only small changes, or sometimes no changes at all, are required afterwards.
Expected behaviour
It would be helpful if duplicated draft entries could be published via a bulk action.
For example:
- Duplicate multiple entries.
- Select the duplicated draft entries in the entry index.
- Use a bulk action to publish them or set them to enabled.
- The selected drafts become regular published entries without having to open each one individually.
Possible solutions
One of the following options would already solve the issue:
- Allow the existing bulk status action to publish selected draft entries when setting them to
Enabled.
- Add a dedicated bulk action such as
Publish drafts.
- Add a dedicated bulk action such as
Convert drafts to published entries.
Why this would help
This would make larger duplication workflows much faster and cleaner, especially for navigation entries, repeated content structures, landing pages, or similar content setups where entries are intentionally duplicated and then reused.
At the moment, the workflow is technically possible, but unnecessarily repetitive for larger batches.
Craft CMS version
5.10
PHP version
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Operating system and version
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Database type and version
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Image driver and version
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Installed plugins and versions
What happened?
Summary
When duplicating multiple entries in Craft CMS, the duplicated entries are created as drafts. This is understandable as a default behaviour, but it becomes cumbersome when the duplicated entries are intentionally meant to be reused and published exactly as they are.
Problem
If a user duplicates a larger number of entries, for example 20–30 entries, each duplicated draft currently has to be opened individually in order to publish it.
This creates unnecessary manual work, especially in content structures where entries are duplicated deliberately and only small changes, or sometimes no changes at all, are required afterwards.
Expected behaviour
It would be helpful if duplicated draft entries could be published via a bulk action.
For example:
Possible solutions
One of the following options would already solve the issue:
Enabled.Publish drafts.Convert drafts to published entries.Why this would help
This would make larger duplication workflows much faster and cleaner, especially for navigation entries, repeated content structures, landing pages, or similar content setups where entries are intentionally duplicated and then reused.
At the moment, the workflow is technically possible, but unnecessarily repetitive for larger batches.
Craft CMS version
5.10
PHP version
No response
Operating system and version
No response
Database type and version
No response
Image driver and version
No response
Installed plugins and versions