Title: Duplicates Last modified: July 31, 2017 --- # Duplicates * Resolved [webfeat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webfeat/) * (@webfeat) * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-16/) * hi I have just been trying out check for duplicates and found it works fine if you use the post title but not if you use the Excerpt. Im using excerpt because my post titles contain names and some people have the same name, so I put in a unique identifier in the excerpt, the idea is the duplicate checking will check this instead but its not, its just reimporting the same people over and over again. * Can you let me know if this is a bug or a feature please? Im loving the plugin but do need this to work as I have no idea way to check for dupes. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [smacksupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smacksupport/) * (@smacksupport) * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-16/#post-9367012) * Hi, * [WP Csv Importer](https://www.smackcoders.com/wp-ultimate-csv-importer-pro.html) is able to check duplicates on existing records. * You can use post_title, post_ID and post_slug to check the duplicates and you can skip the posts based on it. So please use post_ID or post_slug to check and skip the duplicates for your needs. * _[ [Signature moderated](https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#avoid-signatures)]_ - This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/). * Thread Starter [webfeat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webfeat/) * (@webfeat) * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-16/#post-9367306) * Thanks Im doing that now by adding a unique ID to the slug, which is the persons name so it reads 123-john-doe instead of letting WP handle the slug, which would be cleaner. * The excerpt is an option on the page and I did prefer to use that but if it doesnt work then I’ll just have to mess with the slug/url instead. Thanks. * as a side question, is there any documentation on importing characters? I’ve been having fails on 1 import that contains the ’ character, fails every time. If I remove it, it works fine. For reference Im including my values in double quotes i.e. “This doesnt work due to this ’ character” “This does work as I didnt include it this time” This, ‘, works fine, which I’ve replaced the other one with. * edit, both those characters look the same in this font but if you copy paste into another font the difference is more clear. - This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by [webfeat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webfeat/). Reason: added a note * [smacksupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smacksupport/) * (@smacksupport) * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-16/#post-9367605) * Hi, * Currently we do not have option to skip duplicates using post_excerpt, but we will report our development team to add in their future development pipeline. * [WordPress CSV Importer](https://www.smackcoders.com/wp-ultimate-csv-importer-pro.html) plugin recognizes only the UTF-8 encoded characters. You can check on the UTF- 8 encode with [CSV Lint](http://csvlint.io/). Any chance if you are using Excel, we recommend you to use Google Sheets. Excel will miss some characters to be encoded to proper UTF-8. * _[ [Signature moderated](https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#avoid-signatures)]_ - This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/). Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Duplicates’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/assets/icon.svg?rev=3131703) * [WP Ultimate CSV Importer – WordPress Import & Export for CSV, XML & Excel](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/reviews/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [smacksupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smacksupport/) * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-16/#post-9367605) * Status: resolved