Title: Feature request: Duplicate detection
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Feature request: Duplicate detection

 *  [belg4mit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/belg4mit/)
 * (@belg4mit)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-duplicate-detection/)
 * We use our WP installation as a CMS, and have some posts that end with up similar
   content, but are accessible to different users. As a consequence of this sometimes
   the same video is included in multiple posts. It would be swell if the plug-in
   could detect this condition (perhaps a hash of the thumbnail), and reuse the 
   thumbnail that is already in the library. (Possibly “easier” though it could 
   fail if video URIs are not normalized, is to store the video URI as an extra 
   field for the media library entry, and check if any entries have a URI matching
   the video for the current/new post)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-thumbnails/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-thumbnails/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-duplicate-detection/#post-3665713)
 * I could see this possibly becoming a feature, but I’d have to consider a few 
   possible issues like the fact that an image can only be attached to one post 
   which could be a pain for some users. Is this a problem that happens for you 
   often, and is your main concern the extra data/files or the media library getting
   cluttered?
 * I definitely plan on storing the video data with the thumbnail eventually because
   I’d like to offer the ability to update thumbnails if they change or a service
   were to update their API with better quality thumbnails.
 *  Thread Starter [belg4mit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/belg4mit/)
 * (@belg4mit)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-duplicate-detection/#post-3665714)
 * Yeah, the single attachment limits in WP is definitely a bit of an oversight 
   and a little annoying. We get a duplicate or two every few weeks. The cluttered
   media library is my main concern, though having duplicate files in the backup
   also perturbs me a tad.

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 * [thumbnail](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/thumbnail/)
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 * Last reply from: [belg4mit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/belg4mit/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-duplicate-detection/#post-3665714)
 * Status: not a support question