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Copy posts from one Custom Post Type to another. (It doesn't handle post attachments for now)
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<?php | |
add_action('admin_init', 'foo_duplicate_posts', 99999); | |
function foo_duplicate_posts(){ | |
// Only allow admins to run the script | |
if(!current_user_can('manage_options')) | |
return; | |
// Check if keyword is set | |
if(!isset($_GET['duplicate-posts'])) | |
return; | |
// Check if keyword matches | |
if($_GET['duplicate-posts'] !== 'magic-password') | |
return; | |
global $wpdb; | |
// Configure post types | |
$post_type_1 = 'post_type_one'; | |
$post_type_2 = 'post_type_two'; | |
$query = $wpdb->prepare("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = '%s'", $post_type_1); | |
$posts = $wpdb->get_results($query, ARRAY_A); | |
foreach($posts as $post){ | |
// Post info is already stored in an array | |
// Set the post_type to the new post type | |
$post['post_type'] = $post_type_2; | |
$source_post_id = $post['ID']; | |
unset($post['ID']); // Remove ID | |
unset($post['guid']); // Remove guid | |
// Insert new post | |
$new_post = wp_insert_post($post); | |
// Proceed if new post was created | |
if($new_post){ | |
// Print a success message to the screen | |
//show_message("{$post['post_title']} was duplicated from #$post['ID'] to #$new_post"); | |
show_message($post['post_title'] . " was duplicated from #" . $source_post_id ." to #".$new_post); | |
// Get source post's post meta | |
$post_meta = get_post_custom($source_post_id); | |
// Convert all postmeta to new post | |
if(is_array($post_meta)) | |
foreach($post_meta as $k => $v) | |
update_post_meta($new_post, $k, $v[0]); | |
} else { | |
// Print an error message to the screen | |
show_message($post['post_title'] . " was not duplicated."); | |
} | |
} | |
// Stop the admin area from loading to get a clean reading of our output messages | |
exit; | |
} | |
?> |
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Taken from http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66862/duplicating-custom-post-type-and-its-posts#answer-66905 and corrected few problems