20221015-0556. After many emails with the support team, I learned that:
“the new Post ID will always be following the last Post ID that it’s present on the database.”
What happened was (after THEY saw my database) that my import of these CVS files contained the long post numbers that I overrode as post_id.
Mind y’all, I don’t know PHP or SQL, just a simple spreadsheet!
With my bare minimum knowledge and work experience with spreadsheets, I’ve dumped several imports into my wpcomstaging site.
Thusly so the post= numerical values picked up after my last import dump. And because I connected and disconnected AND exported and imported between my self-hosted site to and from my wpcomstaging site, the dummy self-hosted site picked up the long post number!
How crazy is that? If we can tweak our perminks, surely y’all can allow users to fix these post ids!
While I still can play around with my PRO upgraded plan, I’m wondering if I can force these post_id to match the customized permalink structures!
I can see that “posts” and “pages” are considered editable as “posts” since saved or published stuff is really like a static page or webpage. Hence edit.PHP/post whatever. See?
I knew the answers where there but since I’ve got time, I expected the team to reduce my anxiety and stress over minor details, which to a perfectionist in an imperfect world, and come up with the answers since my OLD brain cells are turning into putty.
That’s all. Thanks! Flynnspaws.
Hello Flynn, nice, and good luck!