This plugin detects duplicate post titles and displays a warning when it detects an exact match, at the same time it disables the Publish button to pr …
As of April 2026, Avoid Duplicate Titles is a WordPress duplicate plugin with 10 active installations and a 1/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0.1+ and PHP 6.0.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging.
This plugin allows duplicate titles to be detected and avoided across all public post types. The post types that it works on can be selected in the settings page.
This means that you can enforce unique titles across all types of posts, not just the standard blog pages.
Posts with duplicate titles to existing published posts can be prevented from publication and instead saved as draft.
There is a settings page which allows these behaviors to be changed:
Avoid Duplicate Titles now also supports BP Post Status custom BuddyPress post statuses, so it will check all available…
| WordPress | 5.0.1+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 6.0.0+ required |
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