Duplicate Posts

Hi,

I have been experiencing the same problem recently. Have you found any kind of solution yet?

We replaced our plugin with a different one so, no, haven’t figured it out yet. I’m hoping that, perhaps, the FeedWordPress developer wakes up and corrects the problem.

Could you be more specific and tell me what is the name of this other plugin? because I have problems with duplicates as well.

We’re using CyberSyn right now. It’s about on the level of FeedWordPress but not as robust in some of the features. It’ll do…

I can confirm I am also experiencing this same ‘duplicate posts’ bug since upgrading to version 2014.0805 of this plugin and have had to modify the FWP settings to not auto post syndicated sites (sets posts as pending, which is slightly inconvenient, but not awful).

FWIW, I was previously using version 2013.0504 with WP 4.1 and all seemed to work fine, so somewhere along the way this duplicate post bug was introduced.

I also ran into the duplication problem in the past with version 2014.0805. Sometimes it will make a dozen or more duplicates. Rolling back to the previous version, 2013.0504, is significantly better in that it infrequently makes a dupe and when it does usually only makes one extra.

@jcmglone: When setting not to autopost, does that stop the duplication or does it just give you an opportunity to approve one copy of each story?

Bump… I see there’s a new version out… has this been addressed?

Unfortunately, I don’t see any updated information in the changelog.

OK… I think I resolved it on my own… however, I think it is still a problem in the plugin.

We have over 50 feeds we’re bringing in to our website and we’re doing duplicate checking on them all. It seems that there’s a performance problem somewhere that, when a feed is taking a long time to update AND do duplicate checking, if another feed tries to do so at the same time, it fails the duplicate checks. It sounds like a table lock on the SQL database with regards to the queries for duplicate checking.

So, I changed some settings to see if I could correct the timing:

1) I changed the “Updates” to check before page loads instead of after.
2) I set a time limit on updates to 30 seconds. If it takes longer than 30 seconds to update a feed, then something else is going on and we’ll skip and come back later.
3) I set the fetch timeout to 10 seconds. Again, this fetch should be pretty quick. If it’s not, move on.

This combination has pretty much done away with our duplicate posts. As mentioned, I THINK there still is a problem with the SQL queries where something is locking something else but, for now, I’m happy.

@tristaanogre: I’m still not sure what it is. I’m only pulling in one feed, once an hour, yet the problematic version of the plugin will still make duplicates. It could be an issue with locking under certain conditions such that the plugin can’t see duplicate records, but I haven’t seen the problem occur consistently.

Looking through the code, it’s a pretty complex plugin (dealing with messy feeds and WP issues gave the author a lot of headaches). Reverting to the 2013 version was easier than debugging the 2014 one. ??

Have you tried the new 2015 version?

I just noticed that this thread has been marked [resolved]. Does that mean the 2015 version fixes it. I still don’t see a changelog for the new version.

I′m using the latest version but the plugin still fetch the same post 2-4 times sometimes.

Any ideas? Why is this marked as resolved?

@tmakitalo : Try setting up a cron to update feedwordpress every 20 minutes instead of using the autoupdate. Does that prevent the duplicates?

I do not understand why this thread has been marked [resolved] at least 2 times.

The issue “Duplicate Posts” persists, although I tried to use a lot of different settings.

This is one of the best WP plugins, but its “Duplicate Posts” issue depreciate it seriously!

To answer the questions, scroll up to my previous post.

We have over 50 feeds we’re bringing in to our website and we’re doing duplicate checking on them all. It seems that there’s a performance problem somewhere that, when a feed is taking a long time to update AND do duplicate checking, if another feed tries to do so at the same time, it fails the duplicate checks. It sounds like a table lock on the SQL database with regards to the queries for duplicate checking.

So, I changed some settings to see if I could correct the timing:

1) I changed the “Updates” to check before page loads instead of after.
2) I set a time limit on updates to 30 seconds. If it takes longer than 30 seconds to update a feed, then something else is going on and we’ll skip and come back later.
3) I set the fetch timeout to 10 seconds. Again, this fetch should be pretty quick. If it’s not, move on.

Using the 2015 version and changing the settings as noted, I’ve resolved the duplicate posts. As the originator of this thread, I marked it as resolved because, for me, at least for now, it is resolved. I have heard bupkis from the developer on an actual code resolution so I’ve pretty much written that off for now…

If you are still having problems, I’d suggest you open another thread and document your problems. At this time, it’s no longer an issue for me.