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$wpdb->insert Database Error Duplicate Entry Error Logging

Is there an equivalent to INSERT IGNORE in the wpdb class? As I'm fetching and inserting a twitter feed and the field in which I store the tweet ID is keyed UNIQUE, I am aware that duplicates are ...
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Offset posts with random order

I'm trying to have five advertisement locations, each pulling posts from the same custom post type, but also loading randomly. The only problem I have with my code below is that it will sometimes ...
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Avoid duplicate posts from sidebar widget on homepage?

In a normal dynamic sidebar of a theme's homepage template the sidebar widgets display lots of duplicate posts on the front page. It shows "recent posts" and posts from certain categories in main ...
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Merging two wp_posts tables while avoiding duplicates

Is there a simple way to merge two wp_posts tables while avoiding duplicates?
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Change attachment filename on upload

I am using a forked plugin that uploads images. This works well but I have a problem: I would like to import images with a custom field (on the same csv file) as their name and not like the plugin ...
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duplicate posts with pre_get_posts

I don't have a page.php file. I wanted it to default to index.php so I deleted the page.php file. I found my pages are not loading from index so I added the pre_get_posts to see if that would get them ...
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Any way to duplicate an entire sidebar?

I was an early adopter of Wordpress, in 2004. It has come a long way, but the Widgets admin panel has not. I have to make multiple (maybe 20-30+) sidebars for one site, and so I'm facing the prospect ...
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Multiple URLs with Numbers

I am trying to correct a problem on a Wordpress site which is producing duplicate pages in the format of: /about-us/connecticut/3/3 /about-us/connecticut/3/3 /about-us/connecticut/3/ ...
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Using Same Slug With Multiple Post Types

My Permalinks are the std %postname%. I have several custom post types, eg. 'docs'. function docs_init() { // create a new taxonomy register_taxonomy( 'docs_tax', 'docs', array( 'label' => __( ...
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update_options and unique filenames

I was able to temporarily disable an automatic task of wordpress during a specific file type upload which is nice. For instance, I changed the usual upload path for the pdf uploads by doing this: ...
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Custom Post Type Pagination & duplicate posts

I'm working on a template which will use some custom-post-types & custom-taxonomies.. I'm having problems with pagination and duplicate posts. HOME.PHP LOOP #1 On the homepage (home.php) I have ...
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Removing duplicate values between two wordpress queries

I'm addressing a well known issue in Wordpress, in which I want to display "featured" posts, and under it the rest of the posts. I have a $query1 which holds 2 featured posts, and my query_posts which ...
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Duplicate posts and change category (frontend)

I am trying to create a button inside a post and, when the user clicks on it, I'd like the post to be duplicated and this new post goes to another category, is it possible? For example: I have "post ...
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Generating dynamic Tabs with multiple query post loop

I am trying to generate a dynamic tab based navigating with query post my code is like this <div class="tabbable"> <ul class="nav nav-tabs"> <?php ...
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How to avoid duplicating same meta_value?

I have "publication_year" as meta_key for some images/attachments. I want to list all meta_values inside html table, but I don't want same publication_year value to repeat, my code is: <?php $args ...
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Duplicate posts being displayed when querying Custom Fields

I have created a small segment within WordPress that records match information for League of Legends. Using up to 30 different custom fields I can store information of 30 champions picked from 3 games ...
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Alter SQL query to return posts with unique custom field value, no duplicate values

I currently have a list of posts with the custom field "Name," with several posts having the same value for "Name." I would like to retrieve a list of posts that all have unique values for "Name." ...
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Avoid WP_Query's duplicate posts with taxonomies

Given a blog featuring several categories (such as "Sport", "Nature", etc), I've then proceded to create a custom taxonomy, which allows me to show articles in certain areas of my blog with terms such ...
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What's the proper way to find and remove duplicate images from posts and the media library?

I just exported a largish WP blog from MediaTemple to PHPFog. I used the standard WordPress export and import plugins. For some unknown reason all of my media assets have been duplicated. I now have ...
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Auto-remove custom field with no value on publish

I got some plugins that auto-generates custom fields. Does anyone know how to automatically remove empty custom fields from post when I press "publish"? A check I can put in my functions.php that ...
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Real time Duplicate title check

On my website there are a lot of authors and they are all writing about italian 'scene' so sometimes it happens that two of them write the same post or use same title so what I'm looking for is a way ...
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Save both current and new version of post meta

I want to save two versions of my custom meta box data called "sidebar". I want to compare a new and old version of this data later on, so that is why I want to save a copy of the current "sidebar" to ...
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Why does get_users suddenly return duplicates?

I'm having a hard time figuring this one out. I'm running a simple users query : $args = array( 'role' => 'custom_role', 'orderby' => 'ID', 'order' => 'DESC', 'number' => ...
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Why are theme templates organized as multiple point of entry PHP files instead of reusing your theme's index.php?

I've started to develop my own theme in the past couple weeks (and extracting WP functionality here and there in the past year), and I'm finding the structure of the WP templates awful redundant. ...
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How do I duplicate a single wpmu site?

I'm looking for a method to copy a single wpmu site, pages, and content easily. I have not found any plugins that allow me to do this. My goal is to essentially have a template of pages and content ...
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Duplicate a Wordpress Install for Testing Purposes

I want to test some plugins on my Wordpress site. However, I do not want to mess anything up. Is there a way to duplicate my Wordpress site to a new directory so that I can test plugins there before I ...
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New post is added with the same title as a old post the old post is removed and new post is kept [closed]

I'm using this function to make sure there is no duplicate post or pages with the same title. But the problem is when i add a new post with the same title as a old post the new post that I'm adding is ...
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Prevent duplicate pages from being added

Im using this code to prevent duplicate post from being added but i also need to prevent duplicate pages too. Can Someone please help? function clearDuplicatePosts(){ global $wpdb; $prefix = ...
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If the only permalink setting is %postname% what happens in the case of old duplicates?

I am tempted to change my blog to be site.com/postname. I know that for new posts Wordpress is smart enough to add a unique number to them, but what about old posts that would get updated? I can run ...