How can you stop google from duplicating content when sharing?

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    kristjannapensato · Member ·

    Sharing posts to google+ results in the content being repeated twice in the same google+ post. I think it’s because my posts have no title. Is there any way to fix this?

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    I’ve never heard of that issue. Are you using Publicize? If so, and you are also manually sharing the posts, disconnect it. Can you give us a public link to a post on G+ where this is happening?

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    pensato · Member ·

    Actually, this happens to Matt Mullenweg, even:
    https://plus.google.com/116394575739281318169/posts/ds858Sqpc1i

    My guess is that it has to do with how WordPress handles posts without titles— it generates a title from the first bit of text in the body. Publicize probably isn’t checking for that, so it’s sending the Title and the Body (even though they are identical in a post with no “real to humans” title).

    This might be something that needs to be fixed in either Core or Publicize in order to stop…

    Or maybe there’s a setting we’re all missing. :)

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    amightywp · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I seem to recall that this may be a function of how we are being required to work with Google+’s API, but I don’t want to give you incorrect information. I am verifying that for sure though, so sit tight and as soon as I have confirmation that this is either a bug or how we’re required to work with Google I will let you know!

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