WordPress comes with five default post types and the ability to create custom post types. This gives great control over your content but sometimes you may want to go back and change the post type of something you previously wrote. In this video, we will show you how to switch or convert custom post types in WordPress.

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Summary of this Tutorial:

Start by installing and activating the post type switcher plugin.

Go to the all posts or all pages area for what you want to change.

check the ones you want to change and choose edit from the bulk action dropdown and set them to the type you want.

And click update

You can do the sme with custom post types.

Related Links:

Post Type Switcher

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-type-switcher/

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