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.
This looks fantastic, thanks. Can’t wait to try it out.
Be sure to let us know what you think!
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 ?
That’s a cool idea Nic. A very big idea, but definitely a very cool one.
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 :)
Great news.
Thanks Hans!
Super I love this new feature
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?
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.
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!
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.
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!
It’s an absolute pleasure Steven :)
This is a very useful addition, Greg :)
Thanks Gopu :)
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!
Thanks John. Yeah, saving time is the name of the game here – no matter how you do it.
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!
Thanks for your awesome feedback Brian. It’s an absolute pleasure to serve :)
Really!!! That´s Awesome, congrats!!!
Thanks Sergio!
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
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.
That,s cool!!! Thank you guys!!!
AWESOME! Thank You!
Tremendous!!!
Thank you!
Will try to utilize it soon.
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!
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!
This looks absolutely amazing great job SiteOrigin team!!
Great news!
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
Super. thanks
It also works on subdomains? Copy rows means copy the content and the widget will not right?
Super cool… best update of the year.
Well done SiteOrigin this is Great news :-) Thanks!
THANK YOU!
It is great! This addition is very useful.
Is page builder ingratetable, with themefy?
Wow,Greg!
You don’t know how often I wished for the copy/paste capability. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This really comes in handy, before i had to import a whole page just because i needed to copy a row. Thanks
Very glad about this. This is a very useful feature and really a time saver. Thumbs UP.
Its looks great now. I will use it. Thanks for this information article with video.
I’ve not tested this Page Builder yet, will give it a shot :)
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!
I had suggested this feature for some time. Thank you for Siteorigin’s concern to always improve their products.
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
Love it, works a treat!
Great!
Ottimo lavoro, funziona benissimo, è veramente utile
Grazie
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…
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;
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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…
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> theme.
Running PHP version: 7.0.19
Appreciated your answer.
JULAWEG
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!
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!
Looks Great!
Fantastic!!!! Copy paste of rows is what I hav been looking for for a long time.
Hi, does it work on different plugins like betheme and impreza at the same time?
How would I call short code within a cell, namely for a hotspot plugin?
[devvn_ihotspot id=”1130″]
Thanks!
Brilliant… works great :-)
You folks just keep getting better!
Awesome
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.
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.
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.
Great functionnality ! Thanks guys to always improve this fantastic builder !
Re building product line page and just want to past client names with links… copy paste with links in the 3 columns
thanks
GOT it… actually watched the video!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!
i was using Page builder, and was wondering this feature may exist, and happy to discover it with your post . Many thanks !!!
How I copy any PHP Website Homepage. Thanks for sharing valuable info.
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.
I have license.
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.
Stoked. I though this would complete the package. Great work!!
Glad to hear that helps. All the best with your site :)
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?
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.
Hi, Is it possible to paste into the Footer ?
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 :)
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)
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.
Thanks for your guidance. It worked.
Super, glad to hear you’re making progress Tushar :)
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?
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.
Hi again :) I’ve found your email, we’ll reply there ASAP. Thanks :)
I actually figured it out myself. :)
Super :) Glad to hear you’ve made progress.
Thanks so much for this – been using Site Origin many years, just purchased Premium, well worth it – brilliant!
Hi Di, thanks for your support, it’s most appreciated :)
Excelente!! muchas gracias me facilita un monton el laburo!
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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
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
Hi, thanks for posting your comment. It’s possible there is a JavaScript error on the page. You can check for JS errors using the browser console, here is how https://wordpress.org/support/article/using-your-browser-to-diagnose-javascript-errors/#step-3-diagnosis. For further assistance troubleshooting this problem, please, post on the forum at https://siteorigin.com/thread, we’d be happy to assist there.
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 :)
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
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
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
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
Hi Darius
Thanks for your reply and understanding. We’ll post an update as soon as the addon is ready.
Cheers for now :)
Andrew
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
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