Title: Duplicated Posts
Last modified: September 13, 2016

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# Duplicated Posts

 *  Resolved [Felix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batcop/)
 * (@batcop)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-posts-5/)
 * Hey,
 * I recognize, that there is an issue with duplicated posts submitted by USP.
 * If you let user choose the post, it is likely, that two of them are choosing 
   the same name.
    Any chance, we can let the plugin automatically add a number 
   or any ID to the post, so that two posts with the same title will be named: Post
   Title – 1 and Post Title – 2 for example?
 * Also if I disable the field, where the user can choose the title himself, the
   plugin created a post named: User Submitted Post for EVERY entry done with this
   settings. That makes it impossible to add a second post by anybody, before the
   first one was edited.
 * Would be great, if anybody could help me out here!

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-posts-5/#post-8178111)
 * Glad to help:
 * 1) “I recognize, that there is an issue with duplicated posts submitted by USP.”
 * To prevent this, you can enable the setting, “Unique Titles”.
 * 2) “Any chance, we can let the plugin automatically add a number or any ID to
   the post, so that two posts with the same title will be named: Post Title – 1
   and Post Title – 2 for example?”
 * It’s a good idea, I will add it to the to-do list for the next update.
 * 3) “Also if I disable the field, where the user can choose the title himself,
   the plugin created a post named: User Submitted Post for EVERY entry done with
   this settings. That makes it impossible to add a second post by anybody, before
   the first one was edited.”
 * Correct, if you enable the setting, “Unique Titles”, it is assumed that the “
   Post Title” field will be displayed, so the user can choose a unique title. So
   just disable the Unique Titles setting if you are not displaying the Post Title
   field.
 *  Thread Starter [Felix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batcop/)
 * (@batcop)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-posts-5/#post-8189916)
 * 1)
    did that, they get an error message now, but that is very annoying, so an
   update which allows duplicated posts by just adding a -1 or whatever to the page
   title would be awesome!
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-posts-5/#post-8190692)
 * I agree, and added to the to-do list. Thank you for the feedback.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-posts-5/#post-8461023)
 * Just to follow up with this, the forthcoming version of the plugin (v20161119)
   appends a unique date/time string to the default Post Title. This is filterable
   using the USP hook, `usp_default_title`. More information and an example are 
   provided in the plugin docs > FAQs: “How can I translate the default Post Title?”
 * Thanks again for the feedback 🙂
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/).

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 * Last reply from: [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-posts-5/#post-8461023)
 * Status: resolved