Title: Avoid Duplicate Posts
Author: MyThemeShop
Published: <strong>August 8, 2015</strong>
Last modified: July 4, 2024

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Avoid Duplicate Posts

 By [MyThemeShop](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mythemeshop/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/avoid-duplicate-posts.1.2.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-duplicate-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-duplicate-posts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-duplicate-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-duplicate-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/avoid-duplicate-posts/)

## Description

If you have more than one featured post sections on homepage and don’t want to repeat
same post in different featured sections then you can achieve that by using this
lightweight plugin

#### Support

All support for this plugin is provided through our forums. If you have not registered
yet, you can do so here for **FREE** 
 https://mythemeshop.com/#signup

If after checking our Free WordPress video tutorials here:
 https://mythemeshop.
com/wordpress-101/ & https://community.mythemeshop.com/tutorials/category/2-free-
video-tutorials/

you are still stuck, please feel free to open a new thread, and a member of our 
support team will be happy to help.

Support link:
 https://community.mythemeshop.com/forum/11-free-plugin-support/

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload the `avoid-duplicate-posts` folder to the to the `/wp-content/plugins/` 
    directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Plugin will do it’s job without any configuration.

## FAQ

### Can’t see plugin options in WordPress Dashboard

This is the lightweight plugin without any options, plugin will do it’s job without
any configuration.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Nothing!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-23/)󠁿

 [carolina](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arkitecturahoy/) August 15, 2017

The plugin does nothing!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[DELETED CONTENT](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-content-2/)󠁿

 [TFolder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tfolder/) September 3, 2016 4 replies

This plugin removed a whole host of my posts! Lost tons of content. Now going through
all the stress of trying to get them through a backup, hopefully. AVOID! Garbage.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/avoid-duplicate-posts/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Avoid Duplicate Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ MyThemeShop ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mythemeshop/)

[Translate “Avoid Duplicate Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/avoid-duplicate-posts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/avoid-duplicate-posts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/avoid-duplicate-posts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/avoid-duplicate-posts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/avoid-duplicate-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.0

 * Added: WordPress 6.5 Compatibility

#### 1.1

 * Code cleanup.

#### 1.0

 * Official plugin release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.5**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **70+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.5.8**
 *  PHP version ** 7.2 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-duplicate-posts/)
 * Tags
 * [duplicate posts](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/duplicate-posts/)[remove duplicate posts](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/remove-duplicate-posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-duplicate-posts/advanced/)

## Ratings

 1 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ MyThemeShop ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mythemeshop/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/avoid-duplicate-posts/)