Moving CPTs & Taxonomies (to custom taxonomies)

  • Resolved Jon Hardison

    (@jonhardison)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    I searched and can see that this has come up a few times but I don’t see any answers to it, so I figured I’d ask…

    I’ve got a CPT with its own tags and categories. I’ve named them a little differently so users can tell them apart from the standard Tags and Categories options in places like Appearance/Menus.

    Is there a way to move taxonomies as well? Right now, when I move posts to this new custom post type they lose their categories and tags. I’d do it manually if there weren’t literally thousands of them.

    I appreciate any ideas y’all can throw my way. ??

    PS – This plug-in is a lifesaver! Thank you for it.

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  • Plugin Author John James Jacoby

    (@johnjamesjacoby)

    The relationships between post IDs and taxonomies are not lost. The problem is that your custom taxonomies must not be registered as supporting whatever other post type you are switching them to.

    Once you declare the relationship in your own code (probably with register_taxonomy_for_object_type()) the relationships will magically appear.

    What if you WANT it to use the categories in the new post type? For example, I’m updating a site that had all of its posts as a CPT called ‘articles’ for no discernible reason. They had their own category (taxonomy) – I want to change them to Posts with the regular Category for Posts.

    How would I do that? I need both articles/categories to convert to posts/categories using the default posts/categories instead of the cpt articles/categories.

    Thanks!

    Kermit Woodall

    Hello John
    Thank you very much for your great PlugIn!

    In relation to the questions above take a look:
    Taxonomy Switcher
    or
    Bulk Move

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