My posts turned into drafts

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    dpreznik · Member ·

    Recently I imported my posts into WordPress from elsewhere. And I noticed an issue. Some of my posts belong to multiple categories. And under one category they look like posts, and under another they are drafts. So instead of having 5 drafts, I have 35 now, and 30 published posts. So all posts are duplicated. Is it because WordPress does not allow the same post to belong to multiple categories? Or is it fixable? Thank you.

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    helper-heroponriki · Member ·

    We don’t limit the number of categories a post can be included under, so that’s not what is happening here.

    When you import from a WordPress XML file, each post has its own unique post ID in addition to a post_status for each post. If a post ID already exists on the site, that import would be skipped.

    Looking at your posts, each “draft” post has a different post ID from the “published” post, so they would have been listed as separate post entries in your export file.

    The quickest way to “fix” this would be to trash the draft duplicates. I don’t see anything that was off on our end, so I’m not sure what else we’d be able to do.

    Let us know if you have any questions.

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    dpreznik · Member ·

    Thank you very much. It is fixed.

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