Some posts share a title on purpose: a “Contact” page in two sections, a yearly “Annual Report”. Exclusions protects them, so they’re never offered for removal.
Settings
- Never remove these post IDs: the IDs of posts that must never be removed, one per line or separated by commas. They’re left out of the duplicates list, even when another post shares their title.
Find a post’s ID
Switch on Settings → Admin → Show IDs to see an ID column on every list. Or open the post in the editor: the ID is the number after post= in the address bar.
The other copy can still be listed
Excluding one post doesn’t hide the post it matches. If you exclude the copy that would be removed, that pair simply disappears from the list.
See also Matching and Automation.
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