Title: Duplicate Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Duplicate Posts

 *  [fthomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fthomas/)
 * (@fthomas)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-3-2/)
 * Hi All,
 * I’m looking for a plugin that would, on a schedule, check for duplicate posts
   within a wp install. If it finds any, by comparing title and content, unpublishes
   the most recent, and then sends an email to the moderator about the problem. 
   It could also do the check just before publishing a new post (either created 
   on the spot or scheduled for future release), and hold the possible duplicate
   for moderation.
 * Does something like this currently exist, or is it possible?
 * Thanks,
 * Frank.

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 *  Thread Starter [fthomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fthomas/)
 * (@fthomas)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-3-2/#post-883097)
 * Anyone have any idea how to combat this problem? I’m thinking of some sort of
   algorithm that would create a “checksum” on the title and content to make sure
   that there are no two articles that are identical.
 * ???
 * Does anyone think that this is possible?
 * Frank.
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-3-2/#post-883098)
 * How are you getting duplicate posts? I’d look into preventing this problem instead
   of trying to clean it up afterwards.
 *  Thread Starter [fthomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fthomas/)
 * (@fthomas)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-3-2/#post-883103)
 * Some of my sites are getting a little bigger and I do put plr articles into some
   of my domains. So, I do make replicates at times.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-3-2/#post-883103)
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