Nothing groundbreaking, but it saved me real time so I figured I would share. The trick was to slow down and get the basics right before optimizing.
Hope it helps someone else.
A small thing I learned about off-topic lounge
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Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.
Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.
Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.
Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.
Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.