Changing Post Types

A post type can be changed easily thanks to the 'Post Type Switcher' WordPress plugin. 

Featured Images and Sidebar Display

Most of the custom posts should not show their featured image at the top of its content. By default, a normal 'Post' will be set up to display it. Also, normal posts will display the sidebar by default whereas sometimes we do not want the sidebar to be displayed. Both the options to control the featured image and sidebar displays are only able to be seen/edited when editing a normal post. But, if a featured image is added to a custom post type, sometimes the post is triggered to display it even though the option to hide it is not available to that post.

If you need to edit hiding the featured image or sidebar items for a custom post type, you will need to switch the post type to 'Post' and then edit those fields, and finally set the post type back to whatever is appropriate:

• Change the post type from the publish box. 

  

• Change the post type to 'Post' and either 'Save as Pending' or 'Publish' to save it.  Then you toggle the hide featured image flag:

  

• And you hide the sidebar: 

  

• Finally, change the post type back to whatever.