[Plugin: Multipost MU] Posting 200 copies of each post – bug

I just thought I’d try a fresh installation with no other plugins installed, and had the same results. This time 217 copies of the same post so there is definitely a bug in the code when running 2.8.4.

Any suggestions?

Make sure you ONLY activate the plugin for the main/master blog.

The plugin uses the publish_post hook to echo each post to all other blogs.

If you activate the plugin on every blog, each echoed post will trigger another. The plugin will become a cross-posting monster. I plan to add code to safe guard against this in future.

For now, though, make sure you ONLY activate the plugin for the main/master blog.

This bug has been fixed in version 1.1 of the plugin.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/multipost-mu/

Let me know if it gives you any more grief.

I have v1.1 and I’m having a problem with this issue as well. But, mine is more complicated. I’m using the mulit-site plugin to create an extra layer in my architecture. Global, Regional(a sub-site of global) and local (blogs within subsite)

Ideally, I’d like to be able to post to the main site OR to regional sites and have select posts filter down to local sites. But, when I post to the main site, the posts only go down the the regional level. If I activate the plugin at the regional level, I get the posts duplicated hundreds of times on each local site.

And, no matter which way I do it, neither the categories nor the tags transfer.

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This plugin is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’m excited to get it to work.

Also, a question for you…I’ve been reading that the reason why there aren’t other plugins like this floating around is that search engines will think it’s a spam site and blacklist it. My goal was to have a comprehensive main site, with the best posts filtering down to the local level…so the content on a local site would be half generated from above and half generated by local authors. Am I shooting myself in the foot with search engines by sharing so much content?

I can’t comment on the search engine/spam issue as I’ve only used this plugin for closed, research sites that aren’t even touched by external search engines. I can see that mirroring posts across tons of blogs would be a spammers dream though.

I will have a look into the problem of categories and tags, but this plugin may not work for you. It was designed for a single source blog (where you post) and multiple “child” blogs (to receive the posts). In essence, only one layer of hierarchy. It uses a hook that acts whenever a post is published to the main blog. If you enable it on multiple blogs, that are all posting to each other, the publish hook will be firing all over the place and become a cross-posting mess.

So, I will look into the category/tag issue (hopefully in the next week) but it sounds like your issues are larger than just that.