I recently converted a site from Moveable Type to WordPress and noticed that the permalinks for each post are short, cut off and have underscores in them.
What I am looking to do is if there is a script or SQL command I can run to mass change each posts permalink to the default permalink it would have normally generated based on the post title.
Thanks in advance!
Maybe this doesn’t answer your question… but maybe you can adapt it to suit by changing what you put into $slug.
Try this, which should loop over posts and reset the slug to match the post name. For pages, add 'post_type' => 'page'
to the array passed to get_posts().
$posts = get_posts(array('posts_per_page' => -1));
foreach ($posts as $post) {
$slug = sanitize_title(strtolower($post->post_title));
$slug = wp_unique_post_slug($slug, $post->ID, $post->post_status, $post->post_type, $post->post_parent);
wp_update_post(array('ID' => $post->ID, 'post_name' => $slug));
}