Filter by post types and post status in post table
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100
Research direction
Start with the wp search-replace command and trace how it selects posts, revisions, and post types. Clarify the intended semantics of the proposed status and post-type options, then define completion as restricting replacements to the requested values without changing excluded content; no files or tests are named in the issue.
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Description
Feature Request
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Describe your use case and the problem you are facing
I currently use search-replace for batch editing content (when the name of an event that we do has changed for example...)
There's been a couple instances where I would have preferred search-replace to only
edit the content that is currently published (post_status=published) not in past revisions; or only to only change in specified post_types (we updated the url structure for only one kind of custom post_type).
Describe the solution you'd like
I was wondering if it's possible to add an additional parameter to the search-replace command so that when search and replaces are made; the user can specify the
only affect the current revision of content in the wordpress database.
(Thinking aloud this could be done by filtering the post_status or post_type columns for specified values.
(I'd add an extra parameter like post_status=publish which would not update currently published content) using a parameter like --skip-post-status.
Example usage:
wp search-replace 'before' 'after' --skip-post-status=publish --recurse-objects --skip-columns=guid --skip-tables=wp_users
or to only edit certain post types like
--include-post-type-values=my_custom_post_type
Example usage:
wp search-replace 'before' 'after' --include-post-type-values=my_custom_post_type --recurse-objects --skip-columns=guid --skip-tables=wp_users
Filtering out the post_status and post_type columns for their values can be done using a SQL statement but adding this to wp-cli hopefully would be worth doing.
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