Changing Post Type?

  • Resolved eoren1

    (@eoren1)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Jordy,

    Love this plugin! Have a complicated question.

    I started off using the WP/LR sync’s new Post Type option to link multiple LR Collections with my theme’s custom post type (portfolio). It worked very well.

    I am now realizing that those portfolios are not good for SEO and plan to use pages instead. Can I change my setting in WP/LR from the current custom post type to Pages? What will happen to the old Portfolios? Will LR need to sync and upload new images to these new Pages?

    If I use the Convert Post Type plugin to change these Portfolios to Pages first and then change the setting in WP/LR, will that keep everything in sync?

    Hope that makes sense and I totally understand if such big moves will break the photo sync but wanted to see if it was possible to switch the portfolio to pages.

    Thanks!

    Eyal

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wplr-sync/

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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Hello ??

    Love this plugin! Have a complicated question.

    The most complicated, the most fun!

    I started off using the WP/LR sync’s new Post Type option to link multiple LR Collections with my theme’s custom post type (portfolio). It worked very well.

    Just by curiosity, which theme?

    Can I change my setting in WP/LR from the current custom post type to Pages? What will happen to the old Portfolios? Will LR need to sync and upload new images to these new Pages?

    WP/LR Sync only cares about the ID of the post-type. So if you change the post-type itself, it will start create pages instead of portfolios but the previous portfolio will still be kept in sync. It would be a bit confusing though.

    If I use the Convert Post Type plugin to change these Portfolios to Pages first and then change the setting in WP/LR, will that keep everything in sync?

    What I believe this plugin does is that it only modifies the type for each post. In that case, WP/LR Sync wouldn’t mind at all.

    You can use that plugin then change the option in WP/LR Sync related to the post type. I believe it will work. Just make a little backup for you DB before that, just in case ??

    Thread Starter eoren1

    (@eoren1)

    Thank you Jordy! Really appreciate the thoughts.

    The theme is Avada – I can confirm it works very well with WP/LR and it’s nice that it is the most popular theme out there.

    Good to know that WP/LR probably won’t care about the post type change. I’m going to see how SEO improves with the one page I converted and then decide on the rest.

    Thanks again,

    E

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    The theme is Avada – I can confirm it works very well with WP/LR and it’s nice that it is the most popular theme out there.

    Cool! Avada is a company though, right? Is this a particular theme? It is very easy to link from WP/LR Sync to Avada using the Post Types extension you mean?

    I should probably contact Avada to tell them to ask the information for the users who would like to have sync with LR.

    Good to know that WP/LR probably won’t care about the post type change. I’m going to see how SEO improves with the one page I converted and then decide on the rest.

    Let me know how it goes ??

    Thread Starter eoren1

    (@eoren1)

    Avada is this: https://avada.theme-fusion.com

    And I’ve already told the devs how much I like WP/LR and that it integrates perfectly with their custom post types.

    I rethought my strategy and may keep WP/LR as-is and create pages expressly for SEO use.

    Thanks again Jordy

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    I did send them an e-mail, just to say hi ??
    Thank you as always ??

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