Title: re-assign post ids?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# re-assign post ids?

 *  [cookiedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cookiedude/)
 * (@cookiedude)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/re-assign-post-ids/)
 * I wonder if there’s any way to reassign the post ids? When I imported all my 
   Greymatter posts into WordPress it worked just fine but I had some posts from
   before I even used Greymatter and imported them into WordPress by hand. This 
   led to post 165 being from 2004-09-07 while post 166 is from 2002-12-03 . Obviously
   I’d like to have the post ids assigned chronologically. I’d imagine this shouldn’t
   be all that difficult, but I know next to nothing when it comes to these things,
   so I’m hoping someone here can help me out?
    TIA, André

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 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/re-assign-post-ids/#post-95340)
 * The post id is essentially an internal thing. I dont’ think it really matters
   if it is chronoligical or not, does it?
    You could easily use phyMyAdmin to change
   the post id’s, but then you might end up breaking some of the links. Regards
 *  Thread Starter [cookiedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cookiedude/)
 * (@cookiedude)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/re-assign-post-ids/#post-95424)
 * Hmm… ok then. I’ll have a go at setting up a permalink structure. I’ll blame 
   you though if I can’t get it to work 😉

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/re-assign-post-ids/#post-95424)
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