Title: How to reference old article id in new post?
Last modified: January 13, 2022

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# How to reference old article id in new post?

 *  Resolved [randondev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randondev/)
 * (@randondev)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-reference-old-article-id-in-new-post/)
 * I need to retrieve the id that the old article had in the imported posts somehow.
   Is it possible to do that?

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 *  Plugin Author [Kerfred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerfred/)
 * (@kerfred)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-reference-old-article-id-in-new-post/#post-15268065)
 * You can find the old Joomla ID in the postmeta table. The meta key is “_fgj2wp_old_id”.
 *  Thread Starter [randondev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randondev/)
 * (@randondev)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-reference-old-article-id-in-new-post/#post-15268566)
 * thanks

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 * Last reply from: [randondev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randondev/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-reference-old-article-id-in-new-post/#post-15268566)
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