Articles Being Duplicated After Saving To Article Category Menu Item
Brian Norwood
I am rebuilding my site. I started adding a few of many articles with a major issue that cant be resolved.
- I create the article, and press save and close. It often comes back with a 504 timeout in which I have to press back button and resave again. Typically it saves properly the second time but states it had to add a number at the end of the alias name because there was already the name being used.
- But, when you go to the blog menu item to see the double column articles page, it has duplicated those articles in which it took two or more times to save properly.
- The articles manager only shows one of each article. But the menu item shows multiple....and there is NO WAY TO DELETE THE MULTIPLE cases. It acts as if the article was saved twice yet shows once in article manager.
Brian Norwood
Accepted AnswerANSWER: FIGURED IT OUT
I do not know why it is making duplicates of articles and putting the duplicates in my category blog list. But I figured out how to delete the duplicates if it happens.
You must have access to your database. Login to database and locate all of your tables. Find the "content table" and choose it. In that table you will find your articles with duplicates of such. The article will have a ID number or will have a 0. Delete the articles in database with the 0 or without proper ID number.
Obviously save a backup or prepare to backup just in case....but this is simple and worked for me. Its not making a copy of the article, but is making a copy of the database item. Just delete the unneeded article item.
Ofi Khan
Accepted AnswerHello Brian Norwood
Thanks for sharing the solution. I am glad that you have found it. Please accept any answer to close the post. It will be then easier to find the solution for the other users with the same issue. There is a button to accept answer after each comment.
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