How to Prevent Duplicate Post Titles in WordPress

How to Prevent Duplicate Post Titles in WordPress

How to Prevent Duplicate Post Titles in WordPress

Post titles and urls are important for the SEO of your site and having duplicates can have a negative effect. We have helped many users and will tell you how we would prevent duplicate post titles.

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Summary of this tutorial:

Start by going under Plugins, Add New and add the Unique Title Checker plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/unique-…

There are no settings to configure in this and it will prevent duplicate titles out of the box.

When you add a new post that has the same name as another on your site a warning will pop up saying that another post has the same title.


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6.7 -> Hello and welcome to WPBeginner. In this
8.84 -> video I'll walk you through how to
10.29 -> prevent duplicate post titles in
12.54 -> WordPress. When you go to create a new
14.37 -> post WordPress uses your title as the
17.86 -> URL slug and if there's a duplicate it
20.46 -> will assign a number at the end like you
22.35 -> see here but don't worry there's an easy
24.18 -> solution to prevent this from happening
25.92 -> just go to your plugins area click add
28.41 -> new and we'll be installing a plug-in.
32.2 -> Let's look for unique title checker and this
35.34 -> is the plugin we want so we'll click
36.75 -> Install Now and activate. Once the plugin
40.68 -> is activated, now when we go to create a
43.68 -> new post if we accidentally add the same
47.1 -> title then we'll get a notification up
49.17 -> here that its the same. Did you learn
50.73 -> something helpful from today's video? If
52.379 -> so make sure you subscribe to our
54.449 -> YouTube channel right now. Just click on
56.85 -> the subscribe button right here and
58.739 -> thanks for watching

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