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Page Builder Copy Paste

The recent Page Builder 2.5 update added a huge feature that I’m excited to share with you – the ability to copy and paste rows and widgets. It will significantly reduce the amount of time it takes you to build new Page Builder pages.

It’s always been our goal to make Page Builder fast, and we feel like the admin interface is the best place to give you this raw speed. Frontend editors are great! Page Builder has its own Live Editor, which we’re aiming to improve a lot over the next few releases, but the admin interface is where you can construct pages in absolute record time. This is especially true if you’re a seasoned Page Builder user.

Copy-paste stays true to our goal of the being the best admin editing interface.

You can now right-click anywhere in the Page Builder interface to bring up the contextual menu and then copy either the row or the widget you’re hovering over.

Next head on over to the page where you want to paste the row or widget and right click again. You’ll find the option to paste rows in the Row Action section, and widget pasting is in the Cell Actions section because you’re technically pasting the widget to a cell.

Because of how browsers handle clipboard access, we’re using browser storage for this feature. This means you can only copy and paste items within a single domain. But you can freely paste across different page, post types and even different WordPress sites on the same domain.

And that’s Copy Paste. I hope you enjoy the page building speed that this feature brings.

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  1. 6 years, 9 months ago torndownunit

    This looks fantastic, thanks. Can’t wait to try it out.

    • 6 years, 9 months ago Greg Priday
      Hi, I Work Here

      Be sure to let us know what you think!

  2. 6 years, 9 months ago Nic

    Looks great and will be trying but what would be really great is a pluin similar to fb posts where you put in a ulr and it auto fills with a brief description and photos ie. pull in third party content and populate your page now that i am sure many would find useful.I know i would be using that widget /plugin every single day any chance that may become possible soon ?

    • 6 years, 9 months ago Greg Priday
      Hi, I Work Here

      That’s a cool idea Nic. A very big idea, but definitely a very cool one.

      • 6 years, 9 months ago Nic

        Big idea but def worth having i am sure there are many people out there who would love to have it as an option i know it would make my life so much easier for adding items to my pages that can change hourly if late deal holidays etc ….I will watch this space you never know it may happen :)

  3. 6 years, 9 months ago Hans Stuurman

    Great news.

  4. 6 years, 9 months ago Hans Stuurman

    Super I love this new feature

  5. 6 years, 9 months ago James Bularz

    I was excited to hear about this feature, because I often want to copy over row or widget from one domain into dozens of others to use as a template. So I wasn’t quite as excited when I learned that that’s not possible however it’s still a nice feature Aldo of limited value to me. Is there any chance this maybe cross domain compatible in the future?

    • 6 years, 9 months ago Greg Priday
      Hi, I Work Here

      We’ll be looking at some options. For security reasons, browsers are a little bit sticky about how they allow you to work across domains, but there’s always a chance of a solution in the future.

  6. 6 years, 9 months ago Anne Hutchins

    Yet another reason why PageBuilder beats Visual Composer. I’m always singing SiteOrigin’s praises (for all of your products) and I just wish more theme developers would consider integrating SiteOrigin PageBuilder and just dump Visual Composer altogether. Anyway, can’t wait to use this new feature!

    • 6 years, 9 months ago Greg Priday
      Hi, I Work Here

      Thanks for your support Anne! I think another big benefit for theme developers is that SiteOrigin Page Builder is free, so they don’t need to worry about licensing when they integrate it into their themes, which isn’t always the case with commercial builders.

  7. 6 years, 9 months ago Steven Goodwin @ MyFamilyOnABudget

    this will be awesome! Been wanting to do this for a while! This will help save me a ton of time in the future! Thanks for continuing to improve the theme!

    • 6 years, 9 months ago Greg Priday
      Hi, I Work Here

      It’s an absolute pleasure Steven :)

  8. 6 years, 9 months ago Gopu

    This is a very useful addition, Greg :)

  9. 6 years, 9 months ago John

    Awesome! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. This is great for replicating stuff even on the same page instead of having to rebuild similar rows. SiteOrigin kick Visual Composer butt!

    • 6 years, 9 months ago Greg Priday
      Hi, I Work Here

      Thanks John. Yeah, saving time is the name of the game here – no matter how you do it.

  10. 6 years, 9 months ago Brian Campbell

    Great feature! Thanks for adding this! I love the products you are offering. Page builder is awesome! I’ve been using it on every new site I build. This will definitely be useful. Thank you for everything you do!

    • 6 years, 9 months ago Greg Priday
      Hi, I Work Here

      Thanks for your awesome feedback Brian. It’s an absolute pleasure to serve :)

  11. 6 years, 9 months ago Sergio

    Really!!! That´s Awesome, congrats!!!

  12. 6 years, 9 months ago Rafú Lopes

    Sorry but my english is from google A very similar function that I will like very much is to be able to duplicate a page.
    I also use the Vantage theme if it would not be theme configuration … But this function was extraordinary, the page builder is already drag and drop and now adding copy and paste.
    Sastifação in ultilazar your products still of free form with superior quality to other payments that give up to use.
    Gratitude of Brazil

    • 6 years, 9 months ago Greg Priday
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Rafu! It’s actually already possible to duplicate pages. If you click on the Layouts button in Page Builder, you’ll see options down the side to either clone existing pages, or import/export pages as JSON files. You can use both of these features to duplicate entire pages.

  13. 6 years, 9 months ago IGNACIO BERNABEU

    That,s cool!!! Thank you guys!!!

  14. 6 years, 9 months ago Cassandra Williams

    AWESOME! Thank You!

  15. 6 years, 9 months ago Kirr

    Tremendous!!!
    Thank you!
    Will try to utilize it soon.

  16. 6 years, 9 months ago DenW

    That definitely is a very cool and usefull feature to have! Excellent work!
    As others have said, I would also like the option of being able to copy between domains. I’m currently in the process of re-building my site after something went wrong. For some strange reason when I copy a widget to the new site, I always get the same kind of widget. With all the data intact!
    So no matter what widget I try to copy from source, the destination is always a SiteOrigin Price List widget.. strange, but it makes me hope it is not too hard to make this work for other widgets too.. :)

    Again excellent work! And thanks very much!

  17. 6 years, 9 months ago Nick H

    This is great news guys. Wish you had brought this out 4 weeks ago – have just finished a site that would have been a dream to make with copy and paste rather than “long hand”. Keep up the good work!

  18. 6 years, 9 months ago Ziga

    This looks absolutely amazing great job SiteOrigin team!!

  19. 6 years, 9 months ago Gabriele

    Great news!

  20. 6 years, 9 months ago Greg

    Hi Greg,

    This is amazing !! So many times I found myself using the layouts feature to clone pages just to use an existing row, and then deleting everything around it. This new copy paste feature is awesome and will certainly speed up using page builder. Your products keep getting better :)

    Cheers.
    Greg

  21. 6 years, 9 months ago miroslav

    Super. thanks

  22. 6 years, 9 months ago Manuel

    It also works on subdomains? Copy rows means copy the content and the widget will not right?

  23. 6 years, 9 months ago Johnbull

    Super cool… best update of the year.

  24. 6 years, 9 months ago agtoz

    Well done SiteOrigin this is Great news :-) Thanks!

  25. 6 years, 9 months ago GailyD

    THANK YOU!

  26. 6 years, 9 months ago Natalia

    It is great! This addition is very useful.

  27. 6 years, 9 months ago Tony

    Is page builder ingratetable, with themefy?

  28. 6 years, 9 months ago Jan T Baillie

    Wow,Greg!
    You don’t know how often I wished for the copy/paste capability. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  29. 6 years, 9 months ago KalaWebs

    This really comes in handy, before i had to import a whole page just because i needed to copy a row. Thanks

  30. 6 years, 9 months ago Badar Jamal

    Very glad about this. This is a very useful feature and really a time saver. Thumbs UP.

  31. 6 years, 9 months ago TecCrowd

    Its looks great now. I will use it. Thanks for this information article with video.

  32. 6 years, 9 months ago Shabu Anower

    I’ve not tested this Page Builder yet, will give it a shot :)

  33. 6 years, 9 months ago Donna

    It looks great! It reminds me that my site is way overdue for a new design. Thanks so much for making such an awesome product Greg!

  34. 6 years, 9 months ago Marcelo

    I had suggested this feature for some time. Thank you for Siteorigin’s concern to always improve their products.

  35. 6 years, 9 months ago Jula

    Hi Greg,
    Great addition to already wonderful widget Page Builder. I have several pages that provide the same information about teams: Logo, Name, address. team photo, calendar.
    I used the same widget but I have to build every page separately. Now I just copy one page and replace information. It should look perfect.
    I wonder how you can work so hard and for free?
    Thanks

  36. 6 years, 9 months ago Katy

    Love it, works a treat!

  37. 6 years, 9 months ago Annemiek

    Great!

  38. 6 years, 9 months ago Stefano

    Ottimo lavoro, funziona benissimo, è veramente utile

    Grazie

  39. 6 years, 9 months ago Nilesh Shiragave

    Thanks for this feature. I was waiting for this. Right now I am creating a Free wordpress theme using pagebuilder. It will improve the page building time…

  40. 6 years, 9 months ago J.U. Weghorn

    Inspired by your email I went to my website do update Page builder and and appears I can not do it.
    Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of
    WordPress.
    The site origin apps did not updated on my site. See below;
    [image: Inline image 1]

  41. 6 years, 9 months ago travel news india

    That’s great lessons, pagebuider is an awesome plugin and using it so time saving. We maintain several travel websites for our clients and with pagebuider customizing according to client requirements is so easy . For example, adding seasonal packages and custom features. Thanks…

  42. 6 years, 9 months ago J.U. Weghorn

    Hi Kathy
    I have page builder installed and bundle long time ago and I'm using it. Is it any thing new? I will probably buy premium version but since license is for one yer only I wait till I need to do something on my website.
    I have question; will I need any other widgets when I have Premium version installed. Right now I have widgets:
    contact form 7
    Responsive Photo Gallery,
    Site Orgin CSS,
    The events Calendar,
    Black Studio Tiny MCE,
    and few more

    WordPress 4.8 running Vantage Premium
    <https://vampgolf.com/wp-admin/themes.php&gt; theme.

    Running PHP version: 7.0.19

    Appreciated your answer.

    JULAWEG

  43. 6 years, 9 months ago Bridget

    Thanks SiteOrigin team for a great copy and paste feature added to the best wordpress plugin web building repertoire. It makes web designing so much easier for those of us whom are not Pros at building pages, rows, widgets and more. I have had more support from your team then any of my other themes and or plugins. Hats off and many thanks to the team once again at SiteOrigin!

  44. 6 years, 9 months ago Lynn Greenwood

    Wow, this plugin is getting better & better. Thank you so much! As a non-profit this plugin has enabled us to offer our partners so much more than we could before.
    Thank you!

  45. 6 years, 8 months ago Ryan Ebbs

    Looks Great!

  46. 6 years, 8 months ago Jarle Indrøy

    Fantastic!!!! Copy paste of rows is what I hav been looking for for a long time.

  47. 6 years, 8 months ago Holger

    Hi, does it work on different plugins like betheme and impreza at the same time?

  48. 6 years, 8 months ago Max Schanfarber

    How would I call short code within a cell, namely for a hotspot plugin?
    [devvn_ihotspot id=”1130″]

    Thanks!

  49. 6 years, 7 months ago agtoz

    Brilliant… works great :-)
    You folks just keep getting better!

  50. 6 years, 7 months ago Güven Açık

    Awesome

  51. 6 years, 6 months ago Victoria BL

    I’m very thankful for all the work you’ve done to improve Page Builder but I cannot wait for the day when I can actually drag and drop everything…something similar to what the Wix people offer. I know… it’s probably too much to ask, right? Again, THANKS.

  52. 6 years, 6 months ago IJda Smits

    I learn a lot from this and one of the things after a good look at the movie is that in my pagebuilder the addons tab is missing. I am a premium user so? I use Unwind.

  53. 6 years, 5 months ago Yasmin Rooney

    Wonderful! Thank you so much. SiteOrigin is such a great thing, and now that you’ve introduced the copy/paste feature, it just gets better. Thanks for up-dating.

  54. 6 years, 5 months ago Guillaume

    Great functionnality ! Thanks guys to always improve this fantastic builder !

  55. 6 years, 2 days ago Ray

    Re building product line page and just want to past client names with links… copy paste with links in the 3 columns

    thanks

    • 6 years, 2 days ago Ray

      GOT it… actually watched the video!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!

  56. 6 years, 1 day ago Joel

    i was using Page builder, and was wondering this feature may exist, and happy to discover it with your post . Many thanks !!!

  57. 5 years, 9 months ago Yogendra

    How I copy any PHP Website Homepage. Thanks for sharing valuable info.

    • 5 years, 9 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Yogendra. Unfortunately, the functionality discussed here is only for content already in Page Builder by SiteOrigin. I don’t know of a way to copy a PHP based page into Page Builder at the moment. Sorry, wish I had more.

  58. 5 years, 9 months ago J.U. Weghorn

    I have license.

    • 5 years, 9 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi :) Thanks for reaching out. Please, email us on [email protected]. All of our premium support is done via email. We’ll assist as soon as possible. Thanks again.

  59. 5 years, 7 months ago Matthew Carroll

    Stoked. I though this would complete the package. Great work!!

    • 5 years, 7 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Glad to hear that helps. All the best with your site :)

  60. 5 years, 6 months ago dazza17

    I am loving the Copy and Paste features;
    As you can’t currently paste to another domain
    What workflow would you recommend to duplicate the page to another domain?
    Export-import page?
    Do you have plugins that would be useful for this workflow?

    • 5 years, 6 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi :) Try going to the page in question, in the Page Builder toolbar you’ll find a Layouts button, click that and then click Import/Export on the left. Once Import/Export is open, click the Download Layout bottom right. You can then import a layout using the same steps. Let me know how this goes and if it helps.

  61. 5 years, 5 months ago Tushar Gangoly

    Hi, Is it possible to paste into the Footer ?

    • 5 years, 5 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Tushar, thanks for posting. You can paste into the footer but would need to first insert a Layout Builder widget. In the Layout Builder, insert a row and then right click in that row to paste. Take a look at how the Layout Builder behaves on mobile as there can be challenges with theme styling. Hope that helps :)

  62. 5 years, 5 months ago Federaik Ludikon

    Copy and Paste and the overall context menù doesn’t seem to work into a layout builder widget. Are you planning to fix this? (on MacOS – Safari)

    • 5 years, 5 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Federaik. Thanks for posting. Widget copy/paste in Safari within the Layout Builder seems normal on our side. If you have a moment, please open a support thrad: https://siteorigin.com/thread and let us know once that’s done. Happy to help resolve the problem.

  63. 5 years, 5 months ago Tushar Gangoly

    Thanks for your guidance. It worked.

    • 5 years, 5 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Super, glad to hear you’re making progress Tushar :)

  64. 5 years, 4 months ago [email protected]

    I did this, but I am unable to change the content on the new page. I can see it visually, but I can not see it to edit it. It doesn’t show anything in the copied cell. It just does me the name of the widget. Can anyone help me edit my new page?

    • 5 years, 4 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Nikki

      Thanks for posting. Can you perhaps open a support thread for us here: https://siteorigin.com/thread. If you let me know once that’s done, I’ll be happy to escalate your question for you. We can then assist and ask for login details if the need arises.

      • 5 years, 4 months ago Andrew Misplon
        Hi, I Work Here

        Hi again :) I’ve found your email, we’ll reply there ASAP. Thanks :)

      • 5 years, 4 months ago Nikki Landry

        I actually figured it out myself. :)

        • 5 years, 4 months ago Andrew Misplon
          Hi, I Work Here

          Super :) Glad to hear you’ve made progress.

  65. 4 years, 10 months ago Di Mann-Povey

    Thanks so much for this – been using Site Origin many years, just purchased Premium, well worth it – brilliant!

    • 4 years, 10 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Di, thanks for your support, it’s most appreciated :)

  66. 4 years, 7 months ago romina

    Excelente!! muchas gracias me facilita un monton el laburo!

    • 4 years, 5 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Romina. Thanks for reading, we’re really glad to hear you’ve been finding copy/paste useful. All the best with your site. Perhaps also consider our Mirror Widgets addon for the future Page: Mirror Widgets.

  67. 4 years, 5 months ago Sami

    Loved this feature on my computer,, but cant seem to find a way to do it while using an IPad with IPad OS. Any ideas?

    • 4 years, 5 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Sami, thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, at the moment, the contextual right-click menu isn’t available on mobile devices. I’ll log a feature request now so that we have your feedback noted and in the queue. Thanks again, sorry we can’t help at the moment with this one.

  68. 3 years, 11 months ago Rodwell Smith

    Can you copy a page widget and paste it in a sidebar widget? I was thinking of making a testimonial posts carousel on the appropriate page but make that copied carousel on a normal blog post’s sidebar. Any suggestions?

    • 3 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Rodwell

      Thanks for reaching out.

      Please, try inserting a Layout Builder widget into your theme widget area. Once you’ve inserted a row into the Layout Builder you’ll be able to use copy/paste operations.

      Something to consider for the future is perhaps our Mirror Widgets addon in SiteOrigin Premium, more on that in the documentation Page: Mirror Widgets.

  69. 3 years, 1 month ago kovely

    Hi there,
    It seems that it doesn’t work anymore.
    The right click doesn’t give any menu to copy/paste/edit/duplicate.. widget : why?
    How can we do now please?

    Thanks

  70. 3 years, 1 month ago kovely

    Hi Andrew,
    It seems that it doesn’t work anymore
    To copy a row or edit etc, the right-click on the row doesn’t give the menu item.
    Same issue for any widget. Copy/paste actions are not available anymore
    The right click doesn’t give any menu to copy/paste/edit/duplicate.. widget : why?
    How can we do please?

    Thanks

  71. 2 years, 3 months ago speedyp

    Just noticed this after many years of using Page Builder.. Again awesome! You really have thought of just about everything we could need – this alone has just saved me @ 1hr of client alts :)

    • 2 years, 3 months ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi, thanks for your kind feedback and support, it’s most appreciated. I’m glad to hear the copy/paste feature is useful.

      Cheers for now.

      Andrew

  72. 11 months, 4 days ago Darius Nycek

    Hi guys,

    in the latest update to 2.21.0 you say its now possible to copy paste cross domain. But its not working on latets Chrome, is there anything that we need to consider?

    best
    Darius

    • 11 months, 4 days ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Darius

      Thanks for your interest and for reading the changelog; much appreciated.

      Apologies for any confusion caused by the changelog entry wording. The latest Page Builder release included a small section of compatibility code for an upcoming SiteOrigin Premium Addon called Cross Domain Copy Paste. The addon will utilize clipboard.siteorigin.com to copy and paste Page Builder data between domains as you usually would in a single site. Alex is busy with the finishing touches on the addon at the moment.

      Thanks again.

      Andrew

      • 11 months, 4 days ago Darius Nycek

        Hi Andrew,

        too bad, I was so happy about this feature and yet was surprised that you have not posted a bigger news about it, which is clear now since its not done yet. Looking forward to the addon though as it would make things lot easier on many projects :)

        Thanks for getting back that quickly!

        best
        Darius

        • 11 months, 4 days ago Andrew Misplon
          Hi, I Work Here

          Hi Darius

          Thanks for your reply and understanding. We’ll post an update as soon as the addon is ready.

          Cheers for now :)

          Andrew

  73. 9 months, 15 days ago Anita

    Hi,

    in April you announced Cross Domain Copy Paste support. It’s not working on my end.
    When will it be ready? I need it please :-)

    Best, Anita

    • 9 months, 15 days ago Andrew Misplon
      Hi, I Work Here

      Hi Anita

      Thanks for your interest.

      Unfortunately, we haven’t launched the Cross Domain Copy Paste Addon yet. Changelogs contained mentions of the addon when foundational code was added in preparation for the addon release; apologies for the confusion. I expect the addon to be released within the next one to two weeks. You’re welcome to email [email protected] for a pre-release version.

      Thanks again.

      Andrew

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