How to duplicate a page within a Structure?

Question

Most of the pages in my Craft site are contained in one big Structure. There are a couple of pages whose content needs to exist in two locations within the structure. I'm not sure how best to do this.

I could probably hack something together with a bespoke route that loads a template which sets variables related to the navigation, then loads the content from the Entry defined in the CMS... but that seems like a horrible hack, and at that point I'd start to think I should just manually copy and paste the content between the two Entries in the CMS.

Any other ideas? Ideally I'd like it to be manageable in the CMS so it's not too hidden away from the client.

Answer 1

You could add a new entry type "Duplicate" to your section with just an entries field "Use content from entry".

In your template you can now overwrite your entry variable with:

{% set entry = entry.type == 'dupe' ? craft.entries.id(entry.contentFrom.first().id).first() : entry %}

You could also use the "Duplicate" entry type to link to the same entry / URL twice from your navigation:

{% nav entry in entries %}
    {% if entry.type == 'dupe' %}
        {% set entry = craft.entries.id(entry.contentFrom.first().id).first() %}
    {% endif %}
    <a href="{{ entry.url }}">{{ entry.title }}</a>
{% endnav %}

And in case someone "guesses" the URL, simply redirect them to the original entry:

{% if entry.type == 'dupe' %}
    {% set entry = craft.entries.id(entry.contentFrom.first().id).first() %}
    {% redirect entry.url %}
{% endif %}

Answer 2

There are two easy ways to avoid copying and pasting or having duplicate entries.

First, you can use Globals to store the shared information.

Alternatively, your second entry/template can just ask for the data from the entry of the first entry.

{% set shared_information = craft.entries.slug('my-first-entry-slug').first() %}

<p>{{shared_information.customFieldWithSharedInformation}}</p>

Answer 3

Theres a button in the edit entry page that allows you to save the current entry as a new one, just click the arrow next to the save button and you should see the option in the dropdown.

This will essentially duplicate the entry :)