Prepare New Version

Yes ! 😉

As of now, Prepare New Version is available in English and in French. If you wish to, you can translate the interface in your own language in the [standard WordPress way] https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

No, they won’t appear on front since they are meant to be ‘draft’ versions of contents.
Only copies will appear since they are real copies and create a real post.

Yes. The plugin manages all built-in and custom post types.

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Prepare New Version makes your life easier by letting you focus on your primary activity: Writing. You don’t need to handle permalinks, content replacement, or things that would usually be tedious and maybe not without risk. With Prepare New Versions, all of these are being taken care of!

New versions are created from the post editing screen. It can be either an existing post or a pending version of one.

New posts which are copied from existing posts are automatically created with a Draft status. They are independent of the original post and can be published whenever you like.

When you activate the Prepare New Versions plugin, a new column “Pending versions” appears in last position, in the Posts list. You can then access these versions by editing the original post and scrolling to the “Pending versions” box.

When you click the “Update original” button, the permalink is not going to be altered, and will remain the same. This means it won’t change anything for your blog visitors, except for the updated content.

When you update an original post, previous pending versions are not deleted and will remain available. However, you have 2 ways to remove them:
* go to the pending version editing screen and click “Move to trash” in the “Publish” box:
* go the the Posts list and click the “Pending versions” link.You will now access a list of all pending versions and will be able to remove one or several at a time.