Moving a ‘page’ to a ‘post’
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I’d like to take a page on my WordPress blog:
http://areyoutargeted.com/protecting-yourself/best-shielding-practices/
And move it to a post, e.g.
http://areyoutargeted.com/2010/1/15/best-shielding-practices/
The reason I want to do this is to preserve the comments, and the page view statistics.
Is this doable?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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“The reason I want to do this is to preserve the comments”.
I don’t understand this phrase. How can preserving the comments be the reason for turning a page into a post?
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It’s an unusual situation.
I want to place entirely new text on that page. The previously posted comments will no longer apply to the text on that page. Therefore the comments need to be moved.
Meanwhile I want to preserve the previous edition of that page, transforming it into a post. And I think the comments should be moved to that post.
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To turn the page into a post, you copy its content from the html editor, create a new post, paste the content in the html editor, publish.
To tranfer the comments you’ll have to copy each one and submit it yourself in the new post; then edit the “new” comments to restore original dates and commenter’s data (nick, mail, URL). Note well: log out before submiting other people’s comments, otherwise they’ll end up having your avatar.
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Then why don’t you just leave the page as it is and create a new page for the “entirely new text”?
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Because the current URL is linked to from a lot of places and I wanted to continue using it.
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If I’m understanding you correctly:
1. you want to keep the original page ID (url), but you want that page to contain different information.
2. you want to keep the contents of the original page, but you want the contents to be somewhere else, as a new post. Plus, you want the comments about the original content to move with it.You can follow the instructions Panos gave you.
Note that after you copy the contents and comments to a new post (or page), you do not have to delete the original page with the ID (url) you want to preserve. (You will most likely delete the comments, though, because they will be irrelevant to the new content.)
You’d be perfectly safe to change the content of the original page. -
“Because the current URL is linked to from a lot of places and I wanted to continue using it.”
Sorry?
If the “entirely new text” you’re contemplating is irrelevant, that’s deception.
If it’s an update or otherwise improved version of the current content, publish it in a new page, and write a note with a link to the new page at the beginning of the old one.
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If the “entirely new text” you’re contemplating is irrelevant, that’s deception.
If it’s an update or otherwise improved version of the current content, publish it in a new page, and write a note with a link to the new page at the beginning of the old one.
I agree with Panos.
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