Title: Creating extra posts?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Creating extra posts?

 *  [bobbypatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobbypatel/)
 * (@bobbypatel)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-extra-posts/)
 * First of all BIG thank you for making this plugin, very useful.
 * I noticed that if I edit the most recent post with ID = N, then clone or duplicate
   as “new draft”, the resultant copy will have post with ID N+4, where as I was
   expecting it would take the next available ID of N+1. Example I just created 
   a new post, it’s ID is 1000. Then I duplicate it, the resulting duplicated post
   has ID 1004, seems it should have been 1001. If I create 2 posts one after the
   other they usually have sequential numbering for ids.
 * I think this has to do if the post has an image in it’s body but not sure (the
   reason why I think that is if I try to manually edit a post that has and ID in
   the range of N+1 to N+3, 2 show up with an empty “Edit Media” page and the other
   is an empty “Edit Post” page). I think they are ghost entries created to make
   the final copied post, but looks like a weird “post leak”.
 * I just want to make sure this is not a problem and that there is not extra bloat
   in the database for these “ghost posts” created.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-post/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-post/)

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