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How to efficiently find "duplicate" posts, where the titles are different, using metadata to match posts?

The website I'm working on collects information on film reels. A 'film' is a custom post type. Each 'film' is one post. The user bulk uploads films from different sources. Because of this, some films ...
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Taxonomy entries are spawning copies of existing entries with the new title as the existing ID, since upgrade

We recently upgraded a very old WordPress 5.x site to WordPress 6.1.1 and all seemed to go well but then it was reported that some taxonomies were generating new entries randomly. So we have a ...
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How to migrate new web design to an existing website?

Can someone help me, I have duplicator pro but i don't think it's quite what i need to perform the tasks I am looking to do ? I have a live website, fully functioning, however, it was a bit outdated ...
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Prevent duplicating specific column from database table

I have SQL table of cities and counties. I need to loop over them and create dropdown with labels. Cities should be an <option> elements and counties wrapper <optgroup>s. function ...
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Over 500.000(!) unwanted archive pages, major duplicate content problem

We have a large WordPress site with around 17.000 posts and various categories and tags. Google Search Console shows over 500.000 with the notice "Duplicate without user-selected canonical". ...
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delete duplicates wp_postmeta

I'm looking to cleanup wp_postmeta. I've found dozens of duplicate entries. I've spend about 8 hours looking through topics and trying code and plugins to no avail. The most useful article on the ...
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page duplication on wordpress that wont stop

I have a super weird Wordpress issue, there is a history of duplicated posts/pages in the database and they even show up in the Wordpress admin backend. here are the facts: on some days, seemingly ...
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Use more than one query, but prevent duplicates - at scale!

Setup I have a Gutenberg block (made with ACF), which lets users define certain conditions (e.g. this tag or this date, and a number) to display posts matching these conditions. E.g.: "Show ...
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Prevent Duplicate Post Counted by Query

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $get_series_id = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'series_seri', true ); if (in_array($get_series_id, $do_not_duplicate)) { ...
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Someone is copying my site in real time

I discovered by accident a website that's copying mine and its content (including GA code) in real time. Not quite real time, but on a daily basis. I get how it copied my WP theme (although it looks a ...
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Google indexing duplicate page content with Page #### in post title and /page-2 in permalink instead of the ones I set

I'm hoping someone familiar with this problem can help me. I have a WordPress site with thousands of posts, and Google is indexing pages that look like this: mysite.com/page/1 mysite.com/page/2 ...
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Avoid duplicate posts with xml rpc

I'm new to Wordpress and I'm not a developer. I'm running an IFTT applet that posts a WordPress post each time I upload a new video on my Youtube Channel. There is a bug with IFTT. It often posts the ...
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Cloning product not copying custom taxonomies

I have created a custom taxonomy called locations with a lot of options on it. When I clone a product everything is cloned correctly (categories, attributies...) but not the custom taxonomy , all the ...
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Duplicate images on upload

i have the problem with wordpress when i upload 1 image is making 7 images with 7 sizes i want to have only 1 image to stop making from 1 image 7 images with different sizes. Thank you!
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Display custom posts, ordered by most commented, without duplicates

I would like to display custom posts in template, they have to be ordered by most commented and without duplicates on the same page. This is the code that I have for now. $args = array( 'post_type' =&...
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How to avoid a duplicate query from using wp_nav_menu?

My theme need to render 2 menus in homepage. The rest pages only need one. As result is only homepage got duplicate query warning. After tracking down, I found out this was cause by wp_nav_menu. How ...
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Custom product loop avoiding duplicates

I am trying to create a product loop based on an attribute value from (pa_product-series). many products can have the same value, but I only want to return one from each...avoiding multiple products ...
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Duplicate/Clone a Multi-site But Use Same Images & Resources?

I'm looking for any advice before taking the step of cloning my main site into a sub-but utilizing the same resources. Is this an easy process? I realize I can strictly instruct my url paths, but in ...
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wp delete duplicate entries of custom post types every 15 minutes

looking for some assistance. I have searched the usual sites but not come across this specific question and was wondering if anybody could help. I have a scrape system that collects data and saves it ...
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Why does WP allow duplicate pages with the same name?

I ran into an issue yesterday where I saw duplicate versions of a few different pages with the same name & path. No extra number appended to them. I deleted the duplicates which caused an issue ...
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Duplicate posts on archive page

I am loading posts through ajax and it seems new load produces duplicate posts on archive standard loop. This my code I have tried several methods with $do_not_duplicate but it seems none worked or I ...
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Update or insert meta key value - On Duplicate key update

I need to bulk update some meta descriptions and have found that some of the posts don't have them so I need to do an update or insert query. (Once I get this query right I will be creating a temp ...
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SQL query: select duplicate posts - but using duplicate meta [duplicate]

how can I select the duplicate freelancer.com posts? post_id meta_key meta_value -------- ------------------- ---------------------------------------- 1 ...
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I don't want my website to accessed via my public IP address

I am a newbie here When I first installed the bitnami wordpress to my cloud hosting it can accessed by public IP address. After that I have added a domain name successfully, everything went well.. ...
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prevent display duplicate titles on main page

I am using a automatic rss post reader on my website and there is a problem with this plugin that sometimes publish duplicate posts.I can't do anything to this plugin but at least it is better if I ...
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Allow duplicate slugs for custom post type with taxonomies

I have set up a custom post type (team) and a custom taxonomy (team_tax) for this post type, both with the same slug. Down to the core: register_post_type( 'team', array( 'labels' => ...
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Find duplicate posts with same slug and author

We imported over 250K posts into our multi-author WordPress database but have found duplicate posts where the same author has multiple posts with the same slug. Could you please recommend a MySQL ...
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get_pages causing duplicates

I am using get_pages to get all the page content for my front page. I am passing post_content through the content filter $content = $page_data->post_content; $mycontent = apply_filters('...
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Duplicate Category and Page URL loads Category instead of the Page

I have created a Category with the slug service, which has the permalink: https://example.com/service. and a Page with the link: https://example.com/service. In the Category service, there is a post ...
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Events Made Easy Plugin - Duplicate Title Tags

I use the Events Made Easy plugin to handle events for a client. Recently while scanning my site for issues, I noticed that I'm getting blasted with duplicate title tags in the "events" pages as they ...
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Translate pages and URLs without duplicating

I would really appreciate some suggestions about what plugin to use in WP with DIVI editor, to translate my web site and following these specs: do not duplicate pages (that's really important) ...
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Don't insert if permalink is the same?

I have a foreach loop inserting posts. And I already have statements to check if post already exists by unique meta values. But somehow, often when site is loading slowly, something strange happens ...
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How to duplicate a wordpress user and all his/her data from custom fields?

I have many user profiles with a lot of data via custom fields, and have to add it manually. I am wondering how to duplicate users, and then modify some of the data to speed up the process. For what ...
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duplicate wordpress site on same bdd

I have only one bdd with 2 wordpress sites : first with _wp suffix second with _wp2 suffix. For the url : mydomain/site1 mydomain/site2 Now i need to duplicate the site2 as site3 (mydomain/site3) ...
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Where is the source code in the console coming from?

I am having a bit of an issue with menu creation. A bug in WordPress (4.9.4)? -- I am creating a theme and am now adding custom menus. The header menu is fine now. But the footer menu is mirroring ...
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How to remove the duplicate title tags and duplicate meta descriptions?

Google search console detects my duplicate title tags and duplicate meta descriptions... I don't know how can I remove them. These two problems are same. It's from same page. My main page and page 2.....
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How can i find posts with duplicate featured images?

I came across this plugin "Fix Duplicates" which is able to find duplicate posts based on post title and by replacing value from "post_title" to "post_content" in a few places i am able to make this ...
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Select data from foreach loop and send it to wordpress database

The project that I'm working on have a user login section. Once the user logged in, they should be able to see a list of orders that they made in the past which are stored in the database. The list ...
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Multiple duplicate URL's

I keep getting these duplicate pages for my about page. I can't figure out what is causing this issue. Any help or direction?
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Duplicate post/product permalinks. (Link is temporary)

We have 8 different types of products on our site. Often I will duplicate a similar product when creating a new similar product. So instead I created 8 drafts that contain most of info I need when ...
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Duplicate Cron Jobs Using wp_next_scheduled / wp_schedule_event

I'm working on a plugin to register and schedule various cron jobs. I am: using WP Crontrol (just to see all of my cron jobs and override them if need be) have a server cron job set up and have ...
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Prevent wp_insert_user from creating duplicate users

I have a custom plugin that automatically creates a new user via wp_insert_user() if the current user does not exist yet. We use data from our remote ldap server to provide the new user's details (...
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Two posts are loaded instead of one?

I am trying to add a read posts function to my Wordpress website. To achieve this, I create a cookie on which I store all the IDs of read posts. Every time a post is loaded, the following function is ...
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Duplicate posts in paginated results

I'm running into an issue where there are duplicate posts appearing in my paginated results. I suspect the issue is to do with my use of paginate_links(), but if anyone can see something obvious in my ...
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How to delete duplicate records in wp_postmeta database table?

Some of my posts have two values for a meta key called cb_full_width_post. I want to only keep the records that have a meta value of nosidebar-narrow. This means I need to Identify records in ...
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Is it possible to dupplicate a Wordpress post with php?

My Question: Is there some simple function i can use to duplicate a post with a php code, so for example every time someone enters a specific page it will duplicate a given post? More details: I have ...
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Performance : Duplicating `add_action`

If was wondering about PHP performance on Wordpress, If I had many duplicate add_action. add_action( 'init', 'func_a' ); add_action( 'init', 'func_b' ); add_action( 'init', 'func_c' ); //... so on ...
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Trouble cloning a live Wordpress site to a new site on a local server?

I'm new to Wordpress and need to set up a local testing environment where I can make changes to a CLONE of the live site. It is using version 3.4.2., hosted on Dreamhost, and contains several ...
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How to remove Base URL Duplication?

I have an issue in the download link, the URL getting duplicate. Like this http://localhost/test/files/http://localhost/test/files/2016/05/testonly.docx same as the live website: http://www....
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Part of title duplicating but not sure how to remove from code - help?

I inherited a problem that no one in my office can figure out. Our company website has page titles in the format of "Page Name Company Name - Company Name." The first instance of Company Name is a ...
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