Running a song lyrics site on WordPress

The theme is using a custom post type, in this case, “lyrics”. Converting the old posts over to it should be as simple as writing a single query to update the old posts to the new post type.

The query will be something like:

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET post_type = "lyrics" WHERE post_type = "post";

Just as an added precaution, run this one first to ensure that all the posts you think should be converted will be affected and check the results:

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = "post";