I seem to be having an issue that I cannot find any information about. I have 4 pages that I’m converting to a custom post type, and when I run the tool, only 1 of those 4 pages gets converted. When I try and run it a second time, none of the 3 remaining pages are moved.

Has anyone else had similar issues, or any idea of why this could be happening?

Thanks,
Troy

First set up the taxonomies you want. Then select convert from ‘post’ and convert to ‘post’ so that it doesnt actually convert anything. Then select the category you want to convert from the ‘limit posts to category’ list, and then select the taxonomy you want from ‘assign taxonomy terms’ et voila! You may want to back up db and do a test first, but it worked for me.

Still haven’t had any luck with this, or with decyphering your last message. I know you must be busy, but I would be eternally grateful for a bit more guidance on this.

I understand if you can’t spare the time.

Thanks in advance!

I’d just like to second the request for taxonomy conversion. I’ve spent weeks trying to find a way to convert post tags to a new taxonomy.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/convert-tags-to-taxonomy-tags

If your plugin could do this, it would be incredibly helpful.

I don’t want to bug you more than I already have, but is there a way to get this to work?

It would solve about 10 other problems I’m having with my site (www.earlyandoften.org)

I think the problem with updating the db manually is that the post cache doesn’t get changed. (See update_post_caches().) I need to make sure I’m doing that when I change the post types, too.

I’ve tried to manual route, but I’m hitting a wall:

If I manually change the “taxonomy” field of a given record in the wp_term_taxonomy table – from category to, say, people, a custom taxonomy – all posts under that (former) category reflect the update. If you try to edit a post that used to have that category, the custom taxonomy meta-boxes display the right term. (I haven’t tried writing a custom loop to see if the posts would display on the site, so I don’t know if that works.)

The problem is that if you go to the custom taxonomy page (the equivalent of the “category” or “post tags” page under posts,) none of the terms show up in the table at the right. If you SEARCH for them, though, they do show up.

Is there some other file or table that has to be edited for them to display correctly?

Without such a plugin, and without custom taxonomy filtering on the view posts admin page, custom taxonomies seem kind of DOA.