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How to Switch Post Types In WordPress?

By switching post types you can convert any post into a page or custom post type, you can also convert any page into a post or custom post type or any custom post type into a page or post.

There are various options available to bulk convert post types in your WordPress site. But you can also individually switch any post type from the post edit screen.

Post Type Switcher is a WordPress plugin that adds a simple post-type drop-down to your post edit screens. Thus, allowing you to reassign any post to a new post type while editing your post.

Once activated, it can convert nearly every combination of posts, pages, and custom post types on your WordPress website:

  1. Post to Page
  2. Page to Post
  3. Post to Custom Post Type
  4. Custom Post Type to another Custom Post Type

While converting any post the invisible post types, such as revisions, menus, etc, are excluded. But, in case if you need to access invisible post types, you can adjust the boundaries of the plugin by using the ‘pts_post_type_filter’ filter.

Apart from this, bulk editing allows you to select all the posts in a certain type and convert them to a new type with one quick action.

How To Send User Directly To Post On Single Search Result?

If you have a small blog and you want to send the user directly to the post especially when any search result comprises of just one post or page. In such a case you can automatically redirect the user to that result.

The new WordPress plugin called One Search Result allows you to do that on your website. Simply install-activate it and it will start to work automatically. The plugin works with any theme and any objects that would be shown on your search results page.

How To Display Inline Related Posts In WordPress?

Most of the websites display related content at the end of the article, however if you write long articles on your website, the user would probably be seeing related posts at last i.e. after scrolling entire content. You can make your website highly engaging by displaying interesting related content in between the post, may be between headings or paragraphs etc.

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How To Bulk Delete Anything In WordPress?

Is your WordPress website flooded with spam user registrations or you have accidentally imported sample content from some theme or plugin? Whatsoever may be the reason, you can now bulk delete anything in WordPress. For instance: You can delete all posts or pages or selective post types or all spam user registrations in a click.

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How To Display WordPress Posts In Grid Layout?

Traditional vertical layout of displaying posts is common in most WordPress themes. Although it is good for personal blogs and small websites but takes a lot of space. In this lesson we will discuss about the different ways of displays posts using a grid layout which is great for multi-author WordPress websites with large number of posts.

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How To Auto-Convert WordPress Post Title Into Proper Case?

Earlier we have discussed about converting post content into proper case. We also posted lessons on automatically converting first alphabet to uppercase after full-stop and beautifying content text by auto-fixing case, punctuation etc.

Now in this lesson you will see how to convert your WordPress blog post title in proper case with a click of a button.

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How To Display Last Updated Post Date In WordPress?

By default WordPress shows you publish date and there is no way for reader to know about the recent changes made to any post in your WordPress website.

You must have noticed certain news websites running over WordPress shows last modification date on their articles. In this lesson you will learn how you can easily let your visitors know that the post was modified.

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How To Use SEO Friendly URL Structure In WordPress?

Default WordPress URL structure i.e. permalink structure is not considered as SEO friendly. Search engine likes permalinks with post name as slug in them.

SEO friendly URL structure increases your chance of better ranking on search engines like Google etc. Likewise search engines are the largest source of traffic to popular blogs and organic traffic also gives you better ad revenue.

A SEO friendly URL structure is a user-friendly URL structure in which a visitor can know where he is going to simply by looking at the URL. This also works for search engines as well.

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Find & Use Google Images By License From WordPress Editor

Visiting Google Image Search, searching for images by keyword filtering them by license, saving locally, then uploading and inserting them inside your post content is a time consuming job.

In this lesson you will learn about doing same thing very quickly and easily right from your post edit screen.

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Content Egg – Automatically Display Additional Content On WordPress Posts

You can easily set your WordPress website to display additional content before, after or in-between via shortcodes on  your posts, pages and other custom post types.

This way you can not only make your content look rich but add additional useful information and better monetize your WordPress website.

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How To Add NoFollow To WordPress Insert Link Option?

Your WordPress post links are also responsible for your website’s reputation on search engines like Google etc. Linking to pirated and similar websites is not considered good for SEO. While WordPress allows you to open a link in a new window but it doesn’t provides you any feature to turn inserted link “nofollow”.

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How To Export & Import Individual WordPress Posts?

You can individually export and import WordPress posts, pages and other custom post types. By default WordPress exporter in Tools menu allows you to bulk export posts using XML file format. It allows you to export posts by selected date range, categories, tags, authors and post types but has no option to export single content type.

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