Finding but not importing episode

Hi there,

Thanks for using our plugin and for reaching out!
This is most probably happening because the missing episode you’re trying to import already exists somewhere in your WordPress site with the exact same title.

I’d recommend to check your DB directly if you’re comfortable with it, or search the admin panel for possible trashed/draft or other post types that may include an existing post with the same episode title.

Thanks for the advice although now I might have discovered something even stranger.

I checked the DB directly and while I did not find any posts with the same title as the missing episode, I did discover that I had a Page with the same title as the episode right before the skipped episode (i.e. the third episode ever published). Weirdly enough, the episode with the same title as the existing Page is getting imported correctly but the following one still is not. But then the episode after the skipped one (the very first episode ever) is imported so it’s not like it throws off everything after that point.

I renamed that Page just to see if that would help and ran the import again but no luck. Any more ideas on what to check?

Huh, that’s weird.
Do you have a similar episode in the feed with the exact same title and/or GUID?

There aren’t any other episodes with that title or that even just contain that title. For the GUIDs, they were all in the format “https://domain.com/?p=POST_ID”. The episode that is not getting imported is ID 119 and there aren’t any duplicates of that either. The only thing I can think of there is that other IDs start with 119 (e.g. we have 1199, 1196 and 1192 that all got imported correctly) but that doesn’t happen elsewhere (e.g. 134 and 1347 both got imported).

The “Post ID” piece doesn’t really matter for the GUID, but if there are two episodes with the exact same GUID it won’t import. (same for the title).

You can also try the “Force Re-Sync” option if you use the “Pro” version of our plugin – it may work and override the duplicate item.

Otherwise – I’d recommend to just import this one manually and the rest would continue to import as you go.

Okay thanks for your help. Importing that one manually is easy–I mostly just wanted to be sure that future episodes wouldn’t start having this issue.

In the interest of still trying to figure out what might be causing this, is there any further logging/debugging that can be enabled in the plugin?

Yeah I don’t think this should happen again (unless, as mentioned, you have a similar title or GUID)

There are no additional debugging tools or logging, I’m afraid, but it may be a good idea to add to the plugin.