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First release.<\/p>"},"ratings":[],"assets_icons":{"icon-128x128.png":{"filename":"icon-128x128.png","revision":3659898,"resolution":"128x128","location":"assets","locale":"","width":128,"height":128},"icon-256x256.png":{"filename":"icon-256x256.png","revision":3659898,"resolution":"256x256","location":"assets","locale":"","width":256,"height":256},"icon.svg":{"filename":"icon.svg","revision":3659898,"resolution":false,"location":"assets","locale":false}},"assets_banners":{"banner-1544x500.png":{"filename":"banner-1544x500.png","revision":3659898,"resolution":"1544x500","location":"assets","locale":"","width":1544,"height":500},"banner-772x250.png":{"filename":"banner-772x250.png","revision":3659898,"resolution":"772x250","location":"assets","locale":"","width":772,"height":250}},"assets_blueprints":{"blueprint.json":{"filename":"blueprint.json","revision":3659930,"resolution":false,"location":"assets","locale":"","contents":"{\"$schema\":\"https:\\\/\\\/playground.wordpress.net\\\/blueprint-schema.json\",\"landingPage\":\"\\\/wp-admin\\\/admin.php?page=hublo-duplicate-content-auditor&tab=duplicates\",\"preferredVersions\":{\"php\":\"8.2\",\"wp\":\"latest\"},\"phpExtensionBundles\":[\"kitchen-sink\"],\"features\":{\"networking\":false},\"login\":true,\"steps\":[{\"step\":\"installPlugin\",\"pluginData\":{\"resource\":\"wordpress.org\\\/plugins\",\"slug\":\"hublo-duplicate-content-auditor\"},\"options\":{\"activate\":true}},{\"step\":\"runPHP\",\"code\":\" 'The complete guide to content consolidation (2019)', 's' => 'hdca-demo-consolidation-guide-2019', 'c' => '

Why duplicate pages happen<\\\/h2>\\n\\nEvery site that has been publishing for a few years accumulates pages that quietly compete with each other. Two guides on the same subject, written eighteen months apart by different people, both ranking, neither winning.\\n\\nThe cost is not obvious from the dashboard. Search engines have to choose between the two, internal links get split across both, and the version that happens to win is often the older one that nobody has updated.\\n\\n

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Why duplicate pages happen<\\\/h2>\\n\\nEvery site that has been publishing for a few years accumulates pages that quietly compete with each other. Two guides on the same subject, written eighteen months apart by different people, both ranking, neither winning.\\n\\nThe cost is not obvious from the dashboard. Search engines have to choose between the two, internal links get split across both, and the version that happens to win is often the older one that nobody has updated.\\n\\n

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Tooling<\\\/h2>\\n\\nSpreadsheets work for twenty pages and stop working somewhere around two hundred. At that point you want the comparison done for you, with the differences surfaced rather than the similarities.\\n\\n

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Before you start<\\\/h2>\\n\\nAgree who owns the decision before you start. Content consolidation stalls more often over ownership than over technique.\\n\\n

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What we looked at<\\\/h2>\\n\\nPublishing calendars create their own duplication. An annual round-up rewritten each January will overlap heavily with last year\\\\'s, and only some of those overlaps are worth resolving.\\n\\n

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Sites that publish for years end up competing with themselves: the 2019 guide\nand the 2023 rewrite, the category page and the pillar post, three\nnear-identical round-ups. You know they are in there. What you do not know is\nwhich one to keep, and what you would quietly lose by deleting the other.<\/p>\n\n

This plugin answers both, and changes nothing until you say so.<\/p>\n\n

How it works<\/h4>\n\n
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  3. Plan.<\/strong> A merge and redirect plan you can export and act on \u2014 by hand,\nwith a redirect plugin you already use, or with Pro.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

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      Similarity detection that assumes spaces between words fails badly on\nJapanese, Chinese and Korean. This plugin detects the script and switches from\nword shingles to character shingles, so CJK content is compared properly\ninstead of producing noise.<\/p>\n\n

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        Free is a complete job: find the overlap, understand it, decide, export the\nplan. It is not a trial \u2014 nothing expires and no feature stops working. A\nseparate Pro plugin, distributed outside WordPress.org and not bundled here,\ncarries the plan out.<\/p>\n\n

        This plugin, free, does all of the analysis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

          \n
        • Finds every overlapping pair and ranks them<\/li>\n
        • Shows why one version is suggested, signal by signal<\/li>\n
        • Shows what only the other version contains<\/li>\n
        • Previews the merge and the redirect<\/li>\n
        • Exports the whole plan as CSV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

          Pro carries the plan out<\/strong>, inside WordPress:<\/p>\n\n

            \n
          • Performs the merge<\/li>\n
          • Creates the 301 redirects<\/li>\n
          • Rewrites internal links pointing at the retired post<\/li>\n
          • Revision backup, rollback and conflict detection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

            Matches are banded \u2014 near identical, strong overlap, partial overlap \u2014\nbecause a bare percentage is harder to act on than a category.<\/p>\n\n

            Try it without installing<\/h4>\n\n

            A WordPress Playground blueprint ships with this plugin. When the directory\noffers a Live Preview for it, that preview boots a temporary WordPress in your\nbrowser, seeded with posts that overlap on purpose, and opens straight on the\nresults. Nothing is installed on your own site.<\/p>\n\n

            Full documentation, worked examples and the Free\/Pro comparison:\nhttps:\/\/hublo-wp.com\/free-plugins\/duplicate-content-auditor\/<\/p>\n\n

            External services<\/h3>\n\n

            This plugin does not contact any external service on its own. Nothing is sent\nfrom your site in the background.<\/p>\n\n

            The \"Upgrade to Pro\" button is an ordinary link. If you<\/strong> click it, your\nbrowser opens https:\/\/hublo-wp.com\/buy\/duplicate-content-auditor, operated by\nHUBLO. While the Pro edition is on sale, that address takes you to Stripe's\nhosted checkout, where Stripe takes the payment; this plugin never sees or\nhandles card details. The link carries no query\nstring: your site address, your email address, your installation identifier\nand your scan results are never appended to it and never leave your site.\nNothing happens until you click.<\/p>\n\n

            The Pro edition is a separate plugin distributed outside WordPress.org. This\nplugin never downloads it, never installs it and never updates it. It fetches\nno executable code from anywhere. After purchase you download the Pro ZIP in\nyour browser and install it yourself via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.<\/p>\n\n

              \n
            • Purchase service: https:\/\/hublo-wp.com\/buy\/duplicate-content-auditor - operated by HUBLO<\/li>\n
            • Payment processing: Stripe - https:\/\/stripe.com\/privacy<\/li>\n
            • Terms: https:\/\/hublo-wp.com\/terms\/<\/li>\n
            • Privacy: https:\/\/hublo-wp.com\/hublo-privacy-policy\/<\/li>\n
            • Refunds: https:\/\/hublo-wp.com\/refund-policy\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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              1. Install from the Plugins screen, or upload the folder to \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>.<\/li>\n
              2. Activate it.<\/li>\n
              3. Open Duplicate Audit<\/strong> in the admin menu.<\/li>\n
              4. Set your post types and similarity threshold, then press Scan for duplicates<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
                \n

                Does it delete, merge or redirect anything?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

                No. It never writes to your content. It produces a plan and exports it; acting\non the plan is your decision, with your tools.<\/p><\/dd>\n

                What similarity threshold should I use?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

                60% is a sensible default. Raise it if you are seeing loose matches that are\nnot really duplicates; lower it if you suspect overlap the audit is not\ncatching.<\/p><\/dd>\n

                Why are short posts matching each other?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

                Very short texts share phrasing by coincidence. Set a minimum word count in\nSettings \u2014 100 words removes most false matches.<\/p><\/dd>\n

                How does it stay fast on a large site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

                Comparing every post against every other post grows quadratically. Instead\neach post gets a fixed-length fingerprint, and only posts whose fingerprints\ncollide are compared in full.<\/p><\/dd>\n

                Is the canonical suggestion authoritative?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

                No, and it does not pretend to be. The scoring table is shown in full\nprecisely so you can see the reasoning and override it.<\/p><\/dd>\n

                Does it work on Japanese, Chinese or Korean content?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

                Yes. Similarity detection that assumes spaces between words fails on unspaced\nscripts, so the plugin detects the script and switches to character shingles.<\/p><\/dd>\n

                Does it need an account or an API key?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

                No. Nothing leaves your server, and there is nothing to sign up for.<\/p><\/dd>\n

                What happens if I uninstall it?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

                Its three tables and its options are removed. Your content is untouched,\nbecause it was never modified in the first place.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n

                1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n
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                • Near-duplicate detection with CJK-aware shingling.<\/li>\n
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