Say you've got a service page that's working and you want a near-identical one for a second location, a seasonal promotion, or a client-specific variant. Rebuilding it section by section is the kind of busywork nobody enjoys. Cantrip has a Duplicate button on every page for exactly this. Click it and you get a full copy in a couple seconds, no rebuilding required.
Here's what actually happens under the hood. Every section on the page gets copied over: the layout, the text, the images, all of it. The new page shows up titled "Copy of [original title]" with its own slug, so there's no URL collision to worry about. It's a real, separate page from the moment it's created, not a linked clone that updates when you edit the original.
Two things about that copy are worth knowing before you click Duplicate on everything in sight.
It's live the instant it's created. Cantrip pages don't have a draft state. There's no "save as unpublished" step. The duplicate gets a real URL and it's reachable the moment it exists, sitting there as "Copy of Services" until you rename it. It won't show up in your navigation menu unless you check the box to add it there, so nobody's going to stumble onto it by browsing your site. But if someone has the direct link, or a search engine happens to crawl it before you finish editing, it's not actually hidden.
It copies your settings too, not just your content. Meta title, meta description, canonical URL: all of that comes along, which is usually what you want since you're probably keeping most of the page's SEO setup intact. But it also means password protection travels with it. Duplicate a page that's locked behind a password and the copy is locked too, with the exact same password. That's handy if you meant to build a second private page for the same audience. It's a problem if you just wanted the layout and forgot the original was locked down, since now your new "public" page quietly isn't.
The canonical URL is the quieter version of the same issue. If you'd manually set one on the original page, pointing search engines to a specific version of that content, the duplicate inherits it unchanged. Until you update it, you've got a second page telling Google the real version of this content lives somewhere else entirely. Not a big deal for a one-off internal test page. Worth catching if the duplicate is meant to actually rank on its own.
One more edge case worth knowing: duplicate your homepage and the copy doesn't become a second homepage. It comes in as a regular page every time, so there's no risk of accidentally creating two pages fighting over your site's root URL. Making a page the front page is still a separate, deliberate action. Duplicating never does it for you.
None of this makes duplicating a page a bad idea. It's genuinely the fastest way to spin up a page variant without starting from nothing, and for most duplicates (an about page for a second location, a small tweak for a promotion) none of it actually matters. Just get in the habit of opening the new page's settings right after you duplicate it. Check whether password protection should really be there, update the canonical URL if this page is supposed to stand on its own, and swap the title before "Copy of Services" ends up live somewhere it shouldn't.