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Right now in my blog: http://jamesspratt.org/blog I’m on something like id 400 but I need to slip in an old blog post around the 200 mark and have the odd missing id due to dumping drafts or deleting posts.

How can I revive an old and disused WordPress post ID.

Someone?

Thanks

Since my blog is in German, here’s the translation:
1) Pray the Googlebot’s been at your blog and search the deleted page in Google’s site cache.
2) Open table wp_posts in phpMyAdmin or similar.
3) You can recover quite a few things from Google’s cache, like post_title, category ID, article ID, and depending on your template even the rough date and time of publication.
4) Everything else you can make up comparing your “new” article with another one that exists in your database.
5) After saving your entry in the MySQL database, your article will show up somewhere in the admin area, but not in the frontend. To achieve that, open wp_posts2cat and add a new entry. You already have post_id and cat_id, and you can fill rel_id with a value that looks good on it, e.g. if one number is missing in that sequence.