I recently found that an older, now disabled plugin that made scheduled posts was creating new posts as pages. I went into the database and changed post_type
to post
.
The urls then changed to the permalink structure I have for posts:
Whereas the page URL was:
My old page URLs, which were shared on social media already, are now generating 404 errors. Most tutorials I find online discuss setting up redirects when the permalink settings themselves are changed and the whole site is affected. I just want to mitigate these few page-to-post URLs.