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SQL Bulk Move old posts by one author to another category

I'm looking to move a number of old posts by one author from one category to another category and was hoping someone could help me do this? I figure the easiest way would be through an SQL command? ...
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Get posts under a category with SQL

How can I retrieve posts under a category with plain SQL with out using WordPress native api's like get_pages? My Wordpress table wp_terms contains a term named Restaurants. I want to list the post ...
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SQL query to get posts from multiple categories but not in a category

I need to get the last posts' ID and the post_tile within categories 1 and 2, and exclude those within category 3. It must be SQL, because if I use WP_Query it retrieves too much info and I only need ...
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finding out the top 5 source ( source is a custom taxonomy ), in a given category

The client I'm working with have thousands of articles and media ( audio/video ) files. To WordPress, all are posted by Author ID 1, which we named as STAFF. All the content though in reality has ...
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SQL query to return categories and category parents

I have some categories which are not correctly defined. I.e. their parents are messed up. How can I select with SQL all categories and their parents?
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Assign a list of categories with a parent category

I imported hundreds of locations and other categories. Now I have a list of locations in categories to which I would like to assign the "Location" category as its parent. I have tried sql but the ...
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Wordpress Categories: Function using custom SQL to return array of specific category IDs

I'm developing a custom theme which uses categories for positioning, all of which begin with an underscore (e.g. _position1). I have an SQL query as below to get a list of these categories (those ...
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Display latest post from Wordpress Featured Category that is also in X,Y,or Z categories

I want to display the latest post from a "featured" category (id=1) that may also be in either X category, Y category, or Z category (id=2,3,4 respectively). Note, there are other posts in categories ...
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Overriding default calendar to show posts from a category

I'm trying to modify the default WP calendar (get_calendar()) so that it shows posts from a specific category and then use that as a shortcode. Here's what I've done: Copied across the ...
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Modify Wordpress SQL Query to pull from within a category

I am using a wordpress plugin called "kf most read" which stores a count of how many times a post was read, and lets you output a list of most read posts. This works well. The issue is, I am trying ...