Title: Update all posts automatically
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Update all posts automatically

 *  [dbd1031](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbd1031/)
 * (@dbd1031)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-all-posts-automatically/)
 * I recently created a new site using wordpress but I’m a rookie – everything I
   know is trial and error with no formal training. So please, please, please keep
   your answers as simple as possible. Thanks in advance.
 * I created custom fields and then uploaded a .csv file to create roughly 3,300
   posts. I left the post_content field blank. I then developed the desired post
   content through the front-end using shortcodes that referenced the custom fields.
   Once I had what I wanted I UPDATED the poct_content field using MySQL. Every 
   post_content for all posts is the same with the data from the custom fields being
   the variables. All was well to this point.
 * When I attempted to preview in a browser I realized the custom field data is 
   not displaying. I found that if I open a post through WordPress front-end and
   then click “update” the custom field data and the post content “sync” and then
   it will display properly through a browser.
 * My concern is that I have nearly 3,300 posts and I really don;t want to “update”
   them all manually.
 * Is there a way to write a php module to do this automatically? Is there a plugin
   that will do this? Is there some code that can be placed in the theme to update
   it when a post is opened?
 * I am currently using the iFeature theme from cyberchimps but I’m not married 
   to it. I’ll change immediately if there as different theme that will make this
   work. The reason i mention the theme is this – there is no single.php file visible
   through wordpress but i can see it if I go to the server where the theme is saved.
 * Thanks in advance for your help. Dennis – the wordpress rookie

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 * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/)

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