[Feature Request]: convert posts to pages

[atomGit]

Feature Description

the pages feature is welcome, however that probably leaves a lot of people with a lot of posts that they might want to convert to pages with no apparent convenient way to do so

this would also be useful in the future when someone writes a post and later wants to convert it to a page or visa-versa

[collideous]

Here’s how I moved posts to pages.

• Before you start, make a backup of your db.sqlite file, or better yet your whole input folder. If you break something, you'll have that backup.
• Open Publii and go through all the posts that you intend to convert to pages. Remove all tags you may have given them.
• Open db.sqlite in DB Browser for SQLite or any other program you may have to edit SQLite database files.
• In DB Browser click the “Browse Data” tab and select the “posts” table.
• Change the “published” status to “published,is-page” for any post you want to change to a page.
• Save and close the database.

If your posts were in a menu, you’ll have to delete and recreate those menu items.
If you want to arrange your pages hierarchically, do all that in Publii.
If you linked to such posts in other posts, you'll have to fix these links.

[bjazmoore]

I second the need for an easy way to convert posts to pages and back the other way.

[raramuridesign]

Adding a convert option would be super useful. +1 for this.

@collideous suggestion is great for the technical users. But not the non-technical
Just a note on the menu - there is no need to remove the menu, simply edit, choose page and update to the new item and done.

M.

[bjazmoore]

I have created a utility to convert posts to pages. Check it out in Issue 1718 in the user forum.