HELP! My posts are duplicated by

Hi,

I switched to your theme a couple of days ago. Since then my posts get duplicated by

e.g.

1.) http://www.brettspiele-magazin.de/sanssouci/
2.) http://www.brettspiele-magazin.de/sanssouci/2147483647/

I have no idea where this is coming from but my webmaster tools already list over 70 cases in two days.

Any idea?

cheers,
Norman

Additional Info: The added parameters to my valid post urls are coming from my social profiles, like google+, facebook and twitter.

I already disabled jetpack sharing, the share buttons of the theme and the tagdiv social plugin….but that didn’t solve the case that my posts are available via multiple URLS.

Does anybody else have the same problem?

New update on the case. The number /2147483647/ seems to come from the wp revision. I added it to one of my pages that still have status “created, not published” and still could see the page online.

So something makes the revisions duplicate the real content of the website.

Please advice.

Looks like you had some change to your permalinks and haven’t done the redirects when you changed the permalink structure.

The theme doesn’t create duplicates or revisions. You might check your database and make sure you delete all revisions. You can also ensure you don’t have some kind of plugin running which connects to your social media when you do a “preview” when posting (meaning the plugin “runs” when the page loads, even if in preview — I had one of those once upon a time which was a pain as it would ping the social media stuff even for a “preview” …)

None of that may apply to you — but from my experience with theme there isn’t anything in the core code which creates additional versions of content– it’s just a theme, and doesn’t create POSTS or revisions.

If you have a module or plugin which puts some kind of tracking ID on the end, that might cause the issue too, where some kind of redirect was supposed to work, but doesn’t.

Not sure if that helps or not.

While debugging you may want to simply turn off all the plugins and temporarily revert to the twenty-twelve theme and then WATCH what your site is doing. Then turn on plugins one by one and see if something weird is happening — may be a rouge/hacked/bad plugin. This isn’t really a forum for general WP debug, but more theme specific help.

Using a plugin like WP-Optimize may help to “clean up” all the junk in your dbase, if you’re not already doing that, too.

Sorry no better answer.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Hi Christopher,

thanks for the reply. I will go through all your suggestions. If anybody else had the same problem please let me know. I am running my site for a couple of years and switched themes and plugins several times but never faced such a problem.

Cheers,
Norman

I’ve been using WP since end of 2005 on daily basis and not run into that issue before except when I had changed my permalink structure and another time when I had used Yoast to change my permalinks by removing stop words … well, then I had old versions and new versions with inbound links. Hope you figure that one out. Main thing is to make sure NEW duplicate URLs are not being made 🙂 Old ones, you can always do 301s on to fix.

Hi,

problem seems to be solved. The “bad” links were coming from a social media plugin. No new 404 links were reported in WMT since I deactivated it.

In the meantime I searched a little bit for errors including numbers like http://www.example.com/12345/ –> a lot of wordpress installs have this duplicate content problem but as long as google doesn’t care about it I can live with it.

Thanks for all your help.