[Resolved] Converting custom types to posts or page
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Problem:
How to convert custom post types. A lot of imported content is of various post types, the client wants to convert them all to the same type.
Solution:
You can edit the post_type entries in wp_posts in the database directly, but the easiest solution is to use a plugin for the purpose, such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-switcher/
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The site I'm working on has a bunch of content imported from Drupal using Frederic Gilles's importer and your Types plugin.
The site created a bunch of Drupal content types and then imported the data.
But the content types aren't actually any different from each other. The "Bulletin" content type has the same fields more or less as WordPress's built-in "Post" content type. They clutter the site and make it more difficult to build lists of content
I would like to convert them into posts and/or pages. Is that possible?
That plugin works (https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-switcher/) but if there's data in a Custom Type's field and the content type you're converting to doesn't have that field, the data gets lost.
I wonder if there's one that lets you map similar fields.
I'm surprised that the plugin does much more than change the post_type column in the wp_posts table for each affected post, so I wouldn't expect the custom fields data to be lost, it is stored in wp_postmeta and is connected to the post with the post_id key.
I suggest you look in the database and see whether the posts simply had their post_type changes, and, if so, whether those individual posts still have entries in wp_postmeta for the custom fields (Types custom fields are stored with a prefix of 'wpcf-').
If the fields are just "missing" in the back end when editing a post it may be that you just need to edit the Post Field Group and change which custom post types the custom fields are assigned to.
