Convert Newsletter To Post

[jeffersonrabb]

A Newspack customer recently asked whether it was possible to convert a Newsletter to a normal Post, so that Newsletter content could be fully integrated into the site. This could be useful for a site section such as a Newsletter Archive. This seems like it should be relatively easy since the Newsletter is already a post, but how would we approach the UI for this?

cc: @thomasguillot

[thomasguillot]

What do you think of adding the functionality where we list all the newsletters?

Clicking the button would take the user to the Post Editor and copy all the blocks from the Newsletter. They can then add tags, categories, etc...

[sonjaleix]

Hi Newspack team, I'd like to weigh in on this for the Newspack client who requested this feature.

Clicking the button would take the user to the Post Editor and copy all the blocks from the Newsletter. They can then add tags, categories, etc...

@thomasguillot do you mean that there is a way to click one button and the content of the newsletter would be automatically copied into a new post? Or would the copy/pasting happen manually?

[thomasguillot]

@thomasguillot do you mean that there is a way to click one button and the content of the newsletter would be automatically copied into a new post?

@sonjaleix yes, that's the idea 😊

[Retrofitterdk]

Copying a newsletter to a regular post seems a cumbersome way to create a newsletter archive, while also duplicating the content, so it exists twice in the database.

Is there any reason, why you couldn’t just add filters to the register_post_type function, so developers could set ’public’ and ’has_archive’ to true.

This would also make it easier to style newsletters (on the site) differently than regular posts.

[sonjaleix]

I agree with @Retrofitterdk in regards to the duplicate content and it being easier to style the newsletter different on the site from regular posts.

Ideally there would be a UI option to set the newsletters to 'private' or 'private' for this feature.

[jeffersonrabb]

Related: #214

[sonjaleix]

Checking in to see if there might be any progress on this feature soon?

[dkoo]

@sonjaleix I've been working on this here: #272

[dkoo]

@sonjaleix This has been merged as of today and should be going out as part of this week's release.

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[dkoo]

@sonjaleix This is now being deployed to production sites. Just to note, you may need to flush permalinks for the new public posts to be visible (go to Settings > Permalinks and click "Save" without making any changes).