How to update wordpress post without overwriting content

[Peter_Hellmuth]

Hi Samliew

Sorry for not being 100% clear on what I’m trying to achieve. I used Make to add a lot of blog posts to my website. When the posts were in the backend, I discovered a flaw in my flow, meaning that I accidentally added the wrong rows to the wrong custom fields.

So now I am trying to update the custom fields with the right data from a Google Sheet.
My flow goes like this:

WordPress - Search Posts (to get the posts)
Google Sheets - Search Rows (to get the new rows)
WordPress - Update a Post.

I have set a limit of 150 posts to return in the first WP module, but when I run the flow I update 500+ posts if I don’t stop it.

Is there a better/smarter way to update posts in WordPress? I tried following this method:

Update wordpress post without overwriting content

Hi guys, This is a fairly general question. In the past, when I’ve used the update Wordpress post module to add anything to the “content” section, it works fine but overwrites anything that’s already contained in the post. This wasn’t an issue then because the posts were already empty. However, now I’d like to add a small amount of HTML to the end of a Wordpress post that already exists without erasing its content. Am I missing something here? What modules and general workflow would you use t…