Duplicates

The Duplicates page is a queue of testimonials that are probably the same one twice, so you can keep one and clear the rest. Open Testimonials in the site's sidebar, then More at the top of the Inbox, then Duplicates. The menu shows how many groups are open. The address is /sites/<site id>/testimonials/duplicates.

Finding and merging duplicates is on every plan. Merging needs content.write.

The top of the page#

The number of groups that match is at the right of that row.

How a group forms#

A testimonial is checked when it arrives, and a sweep runs every night for what arrival could not see: two imports of one review, an edit that made two texts alike, two people merged into one.

"The same person" is one person record, or two records with the same name.

An exact repeat is usually stopped before it is stored: the same source id, or the same person saying the same words, returns the testimonial that is already there.

A group#

Each card is one group. Its header says the confidence, the reason in words and the number of copies. The copies sit side by side.

Under the copies are two buttons.

What a merge does#

• The copy you keep keeps its own words, its status and its verified mark.
• It gains the tags, the places in manual collections, the widget and wall placements and the custom properties it lacks.
• The other copies go to the trash, marked as merged. Restoring one from the trash undoes the merge for that copy.
• A merged copy that arrived this month stops counting toward the monthly limit.

After a merge you are back on the queue with a notice that offers Undo.

Merge every exact match#

The Merge all N exact matches button asks once, then merges each exact group into the copy the order above picks. It is one action with one undo. One press merges up to 100 groups. With more, press it again for the rest.

Undo#

A merge can be undone for 7 days from the undo list. The copies leave the trash as they were and count again, the group returns to the queue, and the copy that was kept loses what the merge gave it. A copy that was restored or deleted for good in the meantime is left alone.

API and MCP#

The inputs are in the API reference and the MCP reference. What is worth knowing beside them:

• For testimonials_merge the keeper is the testimonial in the path and duplicate_ids names 1 to 20 copies. body_from names a copy whose words the keeper takes instead of its own, and that change is kept in its history. The response carries meta.undo_id.
• testimonial_duplicates_dismiss takes testimonial_ids: every copy of one open group.
• Call testimonial_duplicates_merge_exact with dry_run first. It responds with total, the number of exact groups, and changed, the number of copies that would go to the trash. Then send confirm_count with that total. If the number has changed, nothing is merged and the error is count_changed with the new number in error.count.
• testimonial_duplicates_list takes confidence (exact or likely) and reason.

Ask your assistant:

• "Are there duplicate testimonials? Merge the exact ones and show me the rest."
• "Merge these two reviews from Thijs and keep the longer text."
• "These two are from different customers. Mark them as not duplicates."

Good to know#

• A testimonial in an open group carries the Possible duplicate badge. Its own page lists the other copies with Review duplicates, and is:duplicate in the search box finds them all.
• A group stays in the queue while at least two of its copies are out of the trash. Moving one of two copies to the trash takes the group off the page.
• The nightly sweep covers the sites that received something in the last two days, and every site once a week. A pair made by an edit can therefore take until the next night to appear.
• A testimonial with no words, such as a video without a caption, is not compared.
• To split a group of three, merge the two that are the same first, then mark what is left as not duplicates.