Title: Broadcasting duplicates
Last modified: October 6, 2020

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# Broadcasting duplicates

 *  Resolved [omerfarukaslan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omerfarukaslan/)
 * (@omerfarukaslan)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates/)
 * Hello,
    I’m using the broadcast plugin on a multisite setup which has 59 websites.
   When I broadcast a new post, it posts the item twice on some of the websites.
   I couldn’t find a solution to this. I saw the following support topic but it 
   didn’t help. I don’t use ACF. Could you please help me? [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates-of-custom-post/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates-of-custom-post/)

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 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates/#post-13498889)
 * Does the item already exist on the child blog before broadcasting? Perhaps from
   cloning the site?
 * If so, then you’ll need to tell Broadcast to link the exists posts before broadcasting.
   You can use the “Find Unlinked Children” bulk post action to create links between
   the existing posts.
 * After that, broadcasting should no longer create duplicates.
 *  Thread Starter [omerfarukaslan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omerfarukaslan/)
 * (@omerfarukaslan)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates/#post-13498930)
 * Thank you so much for the prompt response. I don’t think that’s the case. The
   sites are older than 3 years. We experience this on the news items, so it’s pretty
   unlikely for an item to pre-exist.
 * However I tried “Find Unlinked Children” on the post, but it didn’t help.
 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates/#post-13498982)
 * Could you enable Broadcast debug mode, broadcast the post to one blog, and then
   send me the debug text to read through? [edward@plainviewplugins.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates/edward@plainviewplugins.com?output_format=md)
 *  Thread Starter [omerfarukaslan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omerfarukaslan/)
 * (@omerfarukaslan)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates/#post-13499061)
 * I posted the text to you. It doesn’t always create duplicates, therefore I broadcasted
   the post to all sites after activating the debugging.
 * The plugin worked as expected on my first post, then I created a second post,
   it created the duplicates on this second post.
 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates/#post-13499136)
 * E-mail received.
 * For people following this thread, I suspect a PHP timeout due to (1) duplicates
   and (2) broadcasting to a lot of blogs at the same time.
 *  Thread Starter [omerfarukaslan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omerfarukaslan/)
 * (@omerfarukaslan)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broadcasting-duplicates/#post-13499963)
 * Edward, you were right. It seems the max_execution_time was causing this. We 
   decided not to increase the PHP timeout. Therefore proceeded with the add-ons
   listed at item 2 and 3 below. And it seem to be working just fine now. I share
   the information here in case other people need it.
 * —-
    There are several solutions to this problem: 1. Increase the PHP timeout 
   in your PHP.ini settings. This will not speed up broadcasting, only increase 
   your chances of completely broadcasting the post. 2. Use the Duplicate Attachments
   add-on. This will duplicate any attachments + thumbnails instead of regenerating
   them on each child blog. 3. Use the Queue add-on to put each child broadcast 
   into a queue that is emptied by javascript.
 * You will not need solution #1 if you use solutions #2 and #3. 🙂
    —-
 * Thank you so much!!

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