Duplicate listings

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Import WP Pro Updated 7 days ago 10 Replies

Michal asked 1 month ago on September 9, 2025 at 9:58 am

Hello,

I started importing real estate listings into my website, around 1000. The problem is that some of these listings are duplicated 3 to 4 times. I checked the XML feed, but there are no duplicate IDs. Each listing has its own ID, which I set up in WP Import.

Could you please help me with that?

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Michal

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James replied Support Agent

1 month ago on September 9, 2025 at 11:50 am

Hi Michal,

Can you please export and attach your importer settings to this ticket by going to Tools > Import WP > Settings / Tools > Import / Export and select and export your importer as a JSON file.

And also attach your xml file.

Thanks
James

MG

Michal replied privately

1 month ago on September 9, 2025 at 11:55 am

MG

Michal replied privately

1 month ago on September 9, 2025 at 11:55 am

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James replied Support Agent

1 month ago on September 9, 2025 at 12:48 pm

Thanks, are you able to share a temporary login? and can you let me know of an example of the duplicate ids

MG

Michal replied privately

1 month ago on September 9, 2025 at 12:51 pm

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James replied Support Agent

1 month ago on September 9, 2025 at 1:11 pm

Thanks,

Looking at your importer history, i see alot of timeouts, this suggests you are having issues with your wordpress cron? https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/hooking-wp-cron-into-the-system-task-scheduler/ , i would recommend scheduling your servers cron to run every minute.

I would also recommend under your "template fields" tab of the importer, disabling the ID field, as this is the post id which you cant import to, and instead add a custom field such as _property_id or similar, and then under the permissions step change the  unique identifier to template field, and type and select "_property_id" so that it is using this field as a reference to either insert or update records.

Then enabling the delete permission as this will remove any duplicate properties that have been previously imported.

I would also recommend backing up your files and database before running an import, to allow you to restore if needed.

James

MG

Michal replied privately

1 month ago on September 13, 2025 at 10:28 am

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James replied Support Agent

1 week ago on October 6, 2025 at 8:21 am

Hi Michal,

Sorry this reponse managed to fall of my radar and i have only just noticed it, did you find a solution.

If not can you explain a little more about what you want to do with the value and suffix, you should be able to target these attributes and use them like you would with a nodes value.

James

MG

Michal replied privately

1 week ago on October 6, 2025 at 2:05 pm

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James replied Support Agent

7 days ago on October 7, 2025 at 7:01 am

If you click on the value and suffix attributes in the importer it should create the selector for you e.g.

To get the attribute values would be something like (might be a different path to the attribute node at the start):

{/attribute/@name}
{/attribute/@value}
{/attribute/@suffix}

or if you wanted to target a specific one by name for example the "Tip stana"

{/attribute[@name="Tip stana"]/@value}
{/attribute[@name="Tip stana"]/@suffix}

If this is not what you mean, please let me know.