Duplicated Posts & Missing Title

Duplicated imported posts using the “Sync from Tumblr” feature sounds like a bug, though that feature is still “experimental” (i.e., not finished/not tested thoroughly enough). The way Tumblr Crosspostr associates a WordPress post with a Tumblr post is by storing its Tumblr post ID in a custom field (visible as the tumblr_post_id meta field for a given WordPress post). I’d be curious to see if those fields are getting set. If they’re not, it’s probably helpful to submit a bug report.

As for posts never having a title, note that Tumblr Crosspostr won’t make up a title if your Tumblr post doesn’t have a title. And most Tumblr post types (like pictures, for example) don’t even let you have titles. So I’d only be surprised if your WordPress posts show up without titles if your Tumblr posts do have titles. Do they?

Ok, thanks for the reply.
1) Duplicated Posts – Yes, there is the tumblr_post_id field indeed and they match. I only see differences in the tumblr_source_url field, in some duplicated posts there is no such field, in other duplicated there is my blog as source.
I guess I’ll have to wait for the feature to be 100 % finished.

2) No Titles – Ok, then it’s completely normal, my posts are 99% pictures, so it just needs a quick manual edit in WP. ^^

Yes, there is the tumblr_post_id field indeed and they match.

Wait, what do they match?

Do you have the same tumblr_post_id value in different WordPress posts?

Yup, same tumblr_post_id in different posts but with the same content. They are all imported everyday and that’s why I get duplicated posts (or more if I don’t delete them).

I’ve same problem but only with posts which are private at tumblr.
I get them again and again as long as I switched them from “private” to “public” in wordpress. If they’re public it doesn’t happen.

And you can’t delete one the duplicated post, if you don’t wanna lose the post at tumblr. Because you delete one of the duplicated post at wordpress, you delete the post at tumblr. (It’s clear as daylight. The plugin does its work, as it should be. :))

If this happens you have to delete the custom fields tumblr_base_hostname;tumblr_crosspostr_use_excerpt; tumblr_post_id; tumblr_reblog_key below the editor if you wanna edit your post at wordpress or repost your post to tumblr.
If you don’t do that you get an error 400 (or 401) from tumblr.
But this is also clear, because the post and the tumblr IDs are delete at tumblr.

If you delete the fields the plugin re upload your post to tumblr – also clear… ??

Huh. Well that’s definitely a bug, then. I don’t have the wherewithal to hunt it down right now, but it seems like the problem is at or near this area of the code.

Again, if you can write up a clear, formal bug report and then submit it to the project issue tracker, that’d be helpful.

Thanks.

Ok, I wrote the bug report the better I could, I hope it helps to get this plugin at it’s best.
Thanks again!

Sorry for double post, but I have some worrisome news; I did empty the trash in wordpress because I have tons of duplicated entries deleted, and that led to my Tumblr having all it’s posts deleted too. That happened before but I did not see that had anything to do with the plugin.
I updated the bug report in consequence.

Thanks for supplying a more detailed bug report, juansaman. I haven’t yet resolved this issue but did want to chime in to let you know that version 0.7.17 addresses a similar (possibly related?) bug involving content sync’ing. I don’t expect this will resolve your duplicated posts issues but I wanted to make sure you know I haven’t forgotten about it.

Hey Meitar, thanks for the input! ^^
I just updated the plugin, so I’ll let you know for tomorrow how things go. Keep up the good work! ??

Just an update:

After updating the plugin the issue persisted. I proceeded to disconnect WordPress of Tumblr, deleting permanently the duplicated posts on WordPress (this I know results in my Tumblr posts being totally wiped out, but at this point I don’t care). After this I reconnected WordPress and Tumblr, and no more duplicated posts, just new ones ^^ So I guess the update did the trick after all. I waited some days to be sure it didn’t happened again and I’m happy to say it’s working flawless right now. So a big thank you!

Huh. Well, I’m glad it’s resolved for you, though I wonder if the bug is really truly fixed. I imagine it’s possible the problem arises from an interrupted WP-Cron schedule, and that uninstalling and re-installing the plugin was what actually fixed the issue, not the latest version of my code. *shrug*

Wish I had more time/resources to look into this but as it stands fixed for you right now I’ll call it fixed and come back later if others report problems. Too many other things to look at. ??