Title: Posts already exist
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Posts already exist

 *  [kflavin21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kflavin21/)
 * (@kflavin21)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-already-exist/)
 * I’m getting a strange “Post already exists” message when I try to import recent
   posts from my production site. Here’s what my situation looks like:
 * -I have two wordpress installations; one for development, and one which is live.
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   The development installation was cloned from production about two months ago.
   Since then, additional posts have been added on production. -I exported *only*
   posts from the production website and tried to re-import them on the development
   site. -Only 4 posts import, and the other 50 or so give me a message stating “
   Post already exists”. Yet I don’t see the post anywhere within wordpress. They
   don’t actually exist anywhere.
 * I turned on debugging in wp-config.php, and within the plugin file itself, but
   there is limited information in debug.log. Has anyone else experienced this?
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 *  Thread Starter [kflavin21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kflavin21/)
 * (@kflavin21)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-already-exist/#post-5901740)
 * The problem seems to be we added additional pages to the development site, which
   conflict with the posts we’re trying to import from production. It looks like
   they (posts and pages) all get stored in the same wp_posts table. So edits to
   a page generate additional rows in wp_posts with ID’s that conflict with the 
   posts we’re trying to bring in from production. Ugh…

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