[Support request] Change page layout in bulk

[Jan]

Hello.

I have a question: My website have 5000 pages with layout “Content / Right sidebar” (our standard layout).
Now, we want to upload 10.000 extra pages with a layout no-sidebar.

How can we do this? We use all import pro to upload these pages.

Hope to hear from you,

Friendly regards,

Jan

[David]

Hi there,

thats a lot of content 🙂 Are these pages or posts ? As you would need some way of differentiating the content from existing such as a Taxonomy.

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[Jan]

Hi David. Indeed a lot of content (hotels).

Those are pages.

[David]

And i assume the existing content are also Pages ?
First thing that comes to mind is to register a taxonomy for the pages you’re going to import then use that for a Layout Elements Display Rules where you can remove the sidebar.
Ultimately we need something to differentiate the two that isn’t going to change.

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[Jan]

Yes. Existing content are also Pages.

How can i register a taxonomy for the pages that i am going to import?

[David]

Before doing any of this i suggest you test it out using backup/staging sites of both the current and export data site.

This PHP Snippet will register a custom taxonomy called Element Controls with a default term of Display Rules for your pages:

add_action( 'init', 'element_control_custom_tax' );
function element_control_custom_tax() {
    register_taxonomy(
        'element-controls',
        array( 'post', 'page' ),
        array(
            'label' => __( 'Element Controls' ),
            'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'element-controls' ),
			'hierarchical'      => true,
			'show_in_rest' => true,
        )
    );
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'element-controls', 'page' );
    $parent_term = term_exists( 'element-controls', 'element-controls' ); // array is returned if taxonomy is given
	$parent_term_id = $parent_term['term_id']; // get numeric term id
	wp_insert_term(
		'Use Display Rules', // the term 
		'element-controls', // the taxonomy
		array(
			'description'=> 'Post will use the Display Rule Terms', 
			'slug' => 'display-rules', 
			'parent'=> $parent_term_id
		)
	);
}

You would need it on both sites ( the import to and export from ).
Then on the site you want to export from you can set the category for each of your pages.
I don’t have a solution for pragmatically setting the term on all your export pages, so you would need to use Bulk Edit ( 999 pages at a time ) to include the term.

I believe in WP All Import you have the option to include Taxonomies / Custom Taxonomies.

May be worth doing a test of one or two pages to begin with.

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