Post duplication, type changes and portfolio content
The leading post plugins include tools for copying content, changing its type and adding a portfolio content type.
- Post Duplicator: Duplicates post types, including their taxonomies and custom fields.
- Post Type Switcher: Changes a post from one type to another.
- Themify Portfolio Post: Adds a portfolio post type to a site.
Editing and managing post content
Other plugins focus on editorial controls and admin tasks, with overlap across page, posts, admin and category tags.
- Advanced Excerpt: Controls the appearance of WordPress post excerpts.
- Revision Control: Provides finer control over WordPress’s post revision system.
- Radio Buttons for Taxonomies: Replaces default taxonomy boxes with radio buttons, limiting a post to one term in that taxonomy.
- These tasks sit alongside related plugin groupings: 222 plugins overlap with the page tag, 211 with posts, 110 with admin, and 53 with category.
Post-related utilities and publishing extensions
The category also contains narrower utilities for site administration, ratings and publishing workflows.
Header and Footer Scripts adds scripts to a site’s header and just before its closing tag. Add From Server imports files uploaded via FTP or SSH into WordPress, while Reveal IDs displays IDs on admin pages.
WP Admin UI Customize is for customizing the management screen interface. WP-PostRatings adds an AJAX rating system for site content, and XPoster posts to Bluesky, Mastodon or X when a blog is updated or a link is added.
What the post plugin numbers mean for choosing
The category is broad, but its highest install counts are concentrated in three plugins, while update intervals vary across the leading entries.
There are 1,168 plugins in the category, but just 3 have at least 100,000 installs and 20 have at least 10,000. Post Duplicator, Post Type Switcher and Header and Footer Scripts each have 200,000 active installs; only 11% of category plugins were updated in the last year.
Among the listed plugins, update timing ranges from this month for Post Duplicator and Post Type Switcher to 104 months ago for Revision Control and 71 months ago for Add From Server. Several others were updated within the last year, while some have longer intervals, making maintenance history a useful point to compare alongside each plugin’s specific role.