Is there an easy way to change a piece of content's custom post type?

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Last updated by Christian Cox 4 years, 1 month ago.

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February 29, 2020 at 11:08 pm #1533795

joeC-7

I have imported a Drupal 7 site into WordPress using the FG Drupal to WordPress Premium plugin

Now that the content has been migrated, I would like to change the custom post type of some of the written content to simplify and decrease the total number of custom post types we are using.

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March 1, 2020 at 9:26 pm #1534653

Christian Cox

Hi, Toolset doesn't have any built-in post type manipulation mechanism so usually a post type change requires manual database manipulation. In the wp_posts table you can find the post type slug in the post_type column. Change the slug to change the post type - but note that this may have unintended side effects. For example, post relationships are post type specific. Any post relationships you have established with these posts may become lost or corrupted since they now belong to different post types. Content Template associations may need to be updated, Forms may need to have a different post type selected, and so forth. So I would exercise extreme caution here. Definitely make a backup of your database before you attempt this and then test the migration thoroughly.

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