Title: Merging Blogs – Permalink issues
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Merging Blogs – Permalink issues

 *  [NickCorcodilos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickcorcodilos/)
 * (@nickcorcodilos)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/merging-blogs-permalink-issues/)
 * I’ve read some great posts about how to merge posts/pages/etc from one WordPress
   blog into another. One topic I don’t see covered well: Permalink issues.
 * Blog A is large, about 500 posts, 14,000 comments. I’m going to merge its posts/
   pages into a newly designed Blog B, which has about 50 posts and pages that I’d
   like to preserve.
 * Both blogs use the same permalink structure:
    /%post_id%/%postname%
 * 2 questions:
 * 1. When I merge A into B, there will be conflicts in the post_id. Some posts 
   will have the same post_id. Of course, the rest of a post’s name will be different.
   Should I expect problems because some post_id’s will be the same? Will the Import
   tool re-number them, or keep the duplicate id’s?
 * 2. Now let’s say Blog B has a different permalink structure:
    /%postname%/ (no
   id)
 * When I merge in posts from Blog A (which have a post_id), will this be preserved
   for the A posts, or will the permalink setting of B (the “receiving” blog) cause
   the post_id from Blog A to be deleted? Does WordPress ever permit imported posts
   to have different permalink structures than the ones already in that blog?
 * Thanks for any insight/advice. (And if you’ve got any other cautions about such
   a merger, I’d welcome your comments!)

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 * [Merge](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/merge/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/merging-blogs-permalink-issues/)
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