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Reset the slugs on a particular post type to use the default sanitized slugs. To use, add the following code into your theme's functions.php file, ensure that the desired post type is set when calling `wp20140226_reset_slugs('post');` Then navigate to `wp-admin/options-permalink.php` to activate query to reset slugs. Depending on how many posts …
<?php
/**
* Reset the slugs on a particular post type to use the default sanitized slugs
* @param string $post_type filter by post type
* @param int $offset set the paginated post to start
* @param boolean $force_guid_update * WARNING * never enable this
*
* @example add the following code into your theme's functions.php file, ensure
* that the desired post type is set when calling wp20140226_reset_slugs('post');
* Then navigate to wp-admin/options-permalink.php to activate query to reset slugs.
* Depending on how many posts need to be updated this method may take quite
* some time, on a shared host there may be a need to set the $offset argument
* to limit the amount of time the script runs and use multiple calls by adjusting
* the offset to progress through the entire record set.
*
*/
function wp20140226_reset_slugs( $post_type = null, $offset = 0, $force_guid_update = false ){
global $pagenow, $wpdb;
if ( $pagenow != 'options-permalink.php' || empty($post_type) )
return;
$get_post_args = array(
'post_type' => $post_type,
'post_status' => 'any'
);
if( $offset == 0 ){
$get_post_args['posts_per_page'] = -1;
} else {
$get_post_args['offset'] = $offset;
}
$posts_to_fix = new WP_Query( $get_post_args );
foreach( $posts_to_fix->posts as $post_to_fix ){
$wpdb->update(
$wpdb->posts,
array( 'post_name' => sanitize_title( $post_to_fix->post_title ) ),
array( 'ID' => $post_to_fix->ID ),
array( '%s' ),
array( '%d' )
);
}
// you should really leave this alone (do not set to true unless you need to)
//http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Important_GUID_Note
if( $force_guid_update ){
$siteurl = trailingslashit( get_option('siteurl') );
$wpdb->query( "UPDATE {$wpdb->posts} SET guid = CONCAT( '{$siteurl}?p=', ID ) WHERE post_type = {$post_type} OR post_type = 'revision';" );
}
add_action('admin_notices', 'wp20140226_reset_slugs_admin_notice');
}
/**
* notify the user when the reset slug queries are run
*/
function wp20140226_reset_slugs_admin_notice(){
?>
<div class="updated">
<p><?php _e('You have successfully run the reset slugs function, please disable or suffer impact when in the admin.'); ?></p>
</div>
<?php
}
wp20140226_reset_slugs('post'); // change this to be your custom post type
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