Convert a “url” field type to “text” field without losing content?

• charles9

• December 14, 2023 at 2:23 am

I’m running into an issue where I’d like to be able to enter “tel:” links into the url field but, it fails validation. As a work around can I convert the url field into a text field without losing the content across hundreds of pages?

Is there a better solution I haven’t considered?

Thanks in advance.

• John Huebner

• December 14, 2023 at 7:20 am

I would back up the database before, but there really should not be a problem changing the field type.

Both the text and url fields store simple text values. As long as the field name and field key don’t change you should be fine.

Using a text field to allow valid href values is the only solution I’ve found.