Burchwords

Problem

After upgrading early this morning to 2.3 , I actually lost one of my static pages. When the database updated it made my “download” page a post instead of a static page. The link still showed up in the navigation list, but it took you to a 404 error page.
Caution: Backup the Database!

Quick Fix :

After I stop beating my face against my keyboard, I opened up mysql database found that the “download” was listed under wp_post table.

So, I found the field listed as “download” and browsed that field of data. There it all was under post_title. I viewed the table and copied the html code out of the wp_content column. I then pasted that in a text file and saved it.

I deleted that row with “Downloads” in the post_title from the database. I then created created a whole new static page and name it the same thing as the old one and then pasted the code from the text file back into the page and posted. I was back up in less than ten minutes.

If anybody is better at wording this please do so or comment a link or something. I know there has to be sql statement that would do this automatically for you.