Duplicate listings

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Import WP Pro Updated 13 hours ago 7 Replies

Michal asked 5 days 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

4 days 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

4 days ago on September 9, 2025 at 11:55 am

MG

Michal replied privately

4 days ago on September 9, 2025 at 11:55 am

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James replied Support Agent

4 days 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

4 days ago on September 9, 2025 at 12:51 pm

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James replied Support Agent

4 days 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

13 hours ago on September 13, 2025 at 10:28 am