Post appears twice on Google Search Console, once in my Posts list
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This story shows up twice in Google Search Console:
http://billbennett.co.nz/2015/05/17/surface-3-keyboard-frustrates-laptop-replacement-ambition/1/
and
http://billbennett.co.nz/2015/05/17/surface-3-keyboard-frustrates-laptop-replacement-ambition/
In both cases the links work. There doesn’t seem to be a redirect, the same story really is online in two places on my site. However, it only shows up once if I look at my Posts list.
Apart from upsetting Google’s Search Console, it is listed as a Duplicate Title Tag, I don’t think it is doing any harm. Or am I wrong about this?
Either way, I’d like to get rid of the second version if that’s possible. Where do I start?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Go to the Posts/All Posts page of the classic dashboard. Yours would be at https://billbennett.co/wp-admin/edit.php. Youll see all of your posts listed there, though how many display per page depends upon the setting at Screen Options. Send the post you don’t want to trash. You may then delete it from the trash page immediately, or leave it until it automatically deletes in 30 days.
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That’s the strange thing. The story only appears once in the All Posts list. There are definitely two copies, the second one has /1/ at the end of the URL, but it doesn’t appear in WP Admin.
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Do you have multiple pages of posts at All Posts? For example, could one of the posts be on page 2 of the All Posts list?
You should also be able open the editor of the unwanted post with the edit tab that displays on the single post. Once you’ve opened the editor, you may click on the click on the “Move to trash” link at the bottom of the Publish module.
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Yes, I have 1800+ posts.
The posts are dated, both have the same date so they should appear next to each other in the post list.
That last idea is a good one. When I deleted the /1/ version both versions disappeared. When I restored it from the trash both came back.
I wonder if this could be a WordPress bug?
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I wonder if this could be a WordPress bug?
Yes, it could be. I presumed you had created two separate posts. Is it just that one pair of duplicates, or are there others?
I’ll tag the topic for staff attention (“modlook” tag in the sidebar).
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The posts are dated, both have the same date so they should appear next to each other in the post list.
That’s correct, but if you set the page to display 30 posts, one of them could be the last one on page 1, and the other could be the first one on page 2.
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However, your trashing test proves that the two posts are strangely connected. Hopefully staff will be able to explain, and suggest a remedy for, the issue.
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Hi Bill,
You only have one post, and both of those links are pointing to the same post. You can actually add whatever numbers you like to the end of that post’s URL and WordPress will show you the post, like this:
http://billbennett.co.nz/2015/05/17/surface-3-keyboard-frustrates-laptop-replacement-ambition/12345/
However, you’re getting that link with the “1” at the end because of how you set up the footnote link in your post with this HTML:
<a id="fnref-1" class="footnote" title="see footnote" href="1">[1]</a>When you use the code href=”1″ that creates a link that adds a 1 to the end of your post’s URL, giving you this:
http://billbennett.co.nz/2015/05/17/surface-3-keyboard-frustrates-laptop-replacement-ambition/1/
Since the ID for your footnote is “fn-1” you can use that in your link to the footnote, instead:
<a id="fnref-1" class="footnote" title="see footnote" href="#fn-1">[1]</a>Then, at the end of the footnote, you can link back to that section of the article with this link:
<a class="reversefootnote" title="return to article" href="#fnref-1"> ↩</a>You can read more about how anchor links (or “page jumps”) like that work on our Page Jumps support page. Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)
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@ rachelmcr,
Thank you the explanation. Now I realize that, of course, if a second post with the same title had been created on the same date it would have had the URL http://billbennett.co.nz/2015/05/17/surface-3-keyboard-frustrates-laptop-replacement-ambition-2.
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