Title: Adding posts updates previous post
Last modified: June 14, 2019

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# Adding posts updates previous post

 *  [Seagull87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flagship890/)
 * (@flagship890)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-updates-previous-post/)
 * Intermittently adding a new post will cause the previous post to be updated with
   the new posts information, instead of it being inserted.
 * In the _posts table it looks like a normal revision of an old post but it was
   definitely added via the add new post page.
 * Wordpress version 5.2.1
    Adding the post manually through wp-admin. Not using
   code. Only happens with and “editor” user, can’t make it happen with admin. Tried
   deleting user and making a new one but same problem.
 * Below is the _posts table after “adding” 6 posts, as you can see test post_4 
   is updated by test post_5. So there only ends up with 5 posts instead of 6.
 * id post_date post_title post_status post_name post_parent post_type
    1145 2019-
   06-14 13:22:44 test post_6 publish test-post_6 0 post 1146 2019-06-14 13:22:44
   test post_6 inherit 1145-revision-v1 1145 revision 1144 2019-06-14 13:22:31 test
   post_5 inherit 1142-revision-v1 1142 revision 1142 2019-06-14 13:22:19 test post_5
   publish test-post_4 0 post 1143 2019-06-14 13:22:19 test post_4 inherit 1142-
   revision-v1 1142 revision 1140 2019-06-14 13:22:08 test post_3 publish test-post_3
   0 post 1141 2019-06-14 13:22:08 test post_3 inherit 1140-revision-v1 1140 revision
   1138 2019-06-14 13:21:58 test post_2 publish test-post_2 0 post 1139 2019-06-
   14 13:21:58 test post_2 inherit 1138-revision-v1 1138 revision 1136 2019-06-14
   13:21:44 test post_1 publish test-post_1 0 post 1137 2019-06-14 13:21:44 test
   post_1 inherit 1136-revision-v1 1136 revision
 * Any ideas what the cause of this could be?
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [Seagull87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flagship890/).
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [Seagull87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flagship890/).
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [Seagull87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flagship890/).

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-updates-previous-post/)
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