[wp-hackers] RFC: Convert Post to Page

[Mark Jaquith]

Steve Ivy wrote:

>Has anyone found or created a way to convert or copy a post to a page?
>Sometimes I'll write a post that turns out longer than I had
>anticipated, or it will turn out to be something I want to highlight
>on the site, and I'll decide that it needs to be its own page.
>
>Right now that means creating a new page, and copying the content from
>the post into the page, then editing the post to note that it's been
>moved and point to the new page. It would be cool if on the post edit
>page there was a button "Create Page from Post". This would load the
>"Create Page" page with the content in place, the title and slug in
>place, etc, ready for any touch-up edits I might like to make.
>
>Thoughts?
>
At first glance, it looks as simple as changing post_status from 
"publish" to "static" in the database, and possibly changing post_parent 
to "0"

Don't forget to trigger a rebuild of the rewrite rules.

Sounds like a job for a plugin.