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Is there a way to bulk update permalinks through the database? cause I have like 20k posts and all I want to do is add a prefix to the permalink. I could just manually update but that's too tiresome for 20k posts.

For example if post url is http://example.com/post-1 I want to change it to http://example/pre-post-1

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    Permalinks are not stored in database. Do you maybe mean post slugs?
    – gmazzap
    Commented Oct 12, 2014 at 3:44
  • If you're unsure, please post a specific example of what you need to do. I made the mistake of assuming this was a question about a database search and replace for hard coded links and flagged it as off topic. I should have asked first, so sorry if I was mistaken!
    – iyrin
    Commented Oct 12, 2014 at 4:22
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    @RyanLoremIpsum, I think you should be able to remove the close vote, just click it again and it should give you the option.
    – Mark Kaplun
    Commented Oct 12, 2014 at 5:39
  • @G. M Yes I mean post slugs
    – Ruriko
    Commented Oct 12, 2014 at 9:00
  • @Ruriko Please always add additional info as edit to your question.
    – kaiser
    Commented Oct 12, 2014 at 14:09

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Try this query, remembering to change out your_posts_table with the proper name in your database. Using CONCAT, you can add any number of strings, just pass post_name to add your changes before/after.

update your_posts_table
set post_name = CONCAT('pre-', post_name)
  • More info on MySQL CONCAT
  • Note: Use a WHERE clause if you only want to update specific posts.
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