Today, after many months of procrastination, I've implemented a small change to my oik-clone plugin that should significantly improve my publishing process. oik-clone now has the ability to automatically re-clone content with newly added (uncloned) featured images.
The primary purpose is to ensure that the target system has the correct ID for the featured image.
Original process | New process |
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Create the content. | Same |
Upload and attach the featured image. | Same |
View the content. | Same |
In the output of the [clone] shortcode select the post and the child attachment to clone. Click on clone | Same. |
Edit the content - check the SEO meta description, correct a typo or something, update the taxonomies then update. | No need to edit. You're done. |
View the content again. | |
Clone the content again. |
Clone/cloned output before cloning
Post without a featured image. Note: post ID 50 was extracted from the github shortcode. It's a red herring I've learnt to live with.
Clik here to view.

Clone/cloned output after cloning
Clik here to view.

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