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1. wjdennen
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hi,

   I have a bunch of posts (regular posts) in a site. I also have a custom post type defined in the same site. I'd like to be able to COPY all the posts and also change their post_type to the custom post type. In effect, i know I would have 2 copies of the post at that point.

   Simple conversion from one post type to another is easy. But, this is different.

   I've tried a few things. The most fruitful was:

   1) export all of the content
   2) edit the export file and find/replace:

   find:<wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type>

   replace with: <wp:post_type>posttype</wp:post_type>

   3) import

   This seems to work, except for the images. Since the images already exist in the site, they are not re-imported (good), but there are also no images attached to the new custom post type posts.

   Any ideas? thanks.

2. YouON
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Ok I understand your problem, and I'm looking for a solution, but...
   Are you really sure you want to do this? Duplicated content is a beast for Google, don't you care about that?

3. wjdennen
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Thanks. yes, I know that duplicate content is bad. The old posts will eventually go away, leaving just the custom posts.

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