diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 1120451..ccea198 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { ColumnsWidget, LayoutSelectWidget } from './Widgets';
 import ColorPickerWidget from './Widgets/SimpleColorPickerWidget.jsx';
 import { gridSizes, variants } from './grid';
 import { COLUMNSBLOCK } from './constants';
+import { cloneColumnsBlockData } from './utils';
 
 export default function install(config) {
   config.blocks.blocksConfig[COLUMNSBLOCK] = {
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ export default function install(config) {
       '#BED3F3',
       '#D4C4FB',
     ],
+    cloneData: cloneColumnsBlockData,
   };
 
   config.widgets.type.columns = ColumnsWidget;
diff --git a/src/utils.js b/src/utils.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c31b87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import { v4 as uuid } from 'uuid';
+import {
+  getBlocksFieldname,
+  getBlocksLayoutFieldname,
+  getBlocks,
+} from '@plone/volto/helpers';
+import { blocks } from '~/config';
+
+const columnConfig = {
+  cloneData(blockData) {
+    // console.log('column', blockData);
+    return cloneFormData(blockData);
+  },
+};
+
+function cloneFormData(formData) {
+  const formBlocks = getBlocks(formData);
+
+  const cloneWithIds = formBlocks
+    .filter(([id, blockData]) => {
+      return blockData.blocks ? true : !!blockData['@type']; // support "columns"
+    })
+    .map(([id, blockData]) => {
+      const blockConfig =
+        blocks.blocksConfig[blockData['@type']] || columnConfig;
+      return blockConfig.cloneData
+        ? blockConfig.cloneData(blockData)
+        : [uuid(), blockData];
+    })
+    .filter((info) => !!info); // some blocks may refuse to be copied
+
+  const blocksFieldname = getBlocksFieldname(formData);
+  const blocksLayoutFieldname = getBlocksLayoutFieldname(formData);
+
+  const newBlockData = {
+    [blocksFieldname]: {
+      ...formData[blocksFieldname],
+      ...Object.assign(
+        {},
+        ...cloneWithIds.map(([id, data]) => ({ [id]: data })),
+      ),
+    },
+    [blocksLayoutFieldname]: {
+      ...formData[blocksLayoutFieldname],
+      items: [...cloneWithIds.map(([id]) => id)],
+    },
+  };
+  return [uuid(), newBlockData];
+}
+
+export function cloneColumnsBlockData(blockData) {
+  const columnsData = blockData.data;
+  const cloneWithIds = cloneFormData(columnsData);
+
+  const [id, newBlockData] = cloneWithIds;
+  return [
+    id,
+    {
+      ...blockData,
+      data: newBlockData,
+    },
+  ];
+}