Comments on: Cleaning Up Post Tags with WordPress Bulk Edit

By: Adding, Deleting, and Changing a WordPress Category « Lorelle on WordPress

Adding, Deleting, and Changing a WordPress Category « Lorelle on WordPress — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:03:11 +0000

[...] can use the Bulk Edit feature of WordPress to add the category to the posts, or you can manually go through all the posts and add them to the [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:25:35 +0000

The concept of archives is deprecated. There really isn’t a reason to “archive” anything. If you wish to remove them from the content, export them to a backup XML file for safe keeping and delete them.

There are WordPress Plugins that will help you move posts between categories. Give them a try.

There is always Find, Search, Replace, and Delete In A WordPress Database if you feel brave.

By: straydogstrut

straydogstrut — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:37:40 +0000

Hi Lorelle, you recently pointed me to this old post (from an old post of mine!=) ) and I wanted to say thank you, and also ask for a little advice if I may.

One thing I don’t see in the Bulk Edit options is a way to bulk edit the visibility of posts. In relaunching my website I took the drastic step of lumping most of my old posts into an ‘archived’ category and then using the Ultimate Category Excluder plugin to hide them. I’m starting again from a blank slate, but I didn’t want to delete them entirely.

They still show up in the previous/next links at the bottom of posts, howeve, and that was when I realised I could toggle the visibility to hide them entirely. I don’t fancy the prospect of editing them all individually however, although the exercise might be a good idea in case there are any posts I want to make public again..

Do you have any suggestions?

By: 18+ Things You Can Do on the WordPress Comments Panel « Lorelle on WordPress

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:42:37 +0000

[...] checkbox is actually one of your most powerful allies in the pursuit of mass comment editing. In Cleaning Up Post Tags with WordPress Bulk Edit I go through the step-by-step details on how to use the bulk edit feature of WordPress to clean up [...]

By: How to Re-enable and Allow Comments in Older Posts in WordPress | WP Garage

How to Re-enable and Allow Comments in Older Posts in WordPress | WP Garage — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:18:31 +0000

[...] 1. Use the built-in WordPress Bulk Edit feature. [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:54:04 +0000

It’s in the post, Rob. It’s still a pain but it’s the only way unless you dig into the database and do a bunch of search and replaces, which I DO NOT recommend.

By: Rob Law

Rob Law — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:20:24 +0000

Lorelle,

Looking forward to the video, although all of my authors are set as authors on my user section of the dashboard. Perhaps your video will bring something to the fore that is glaringly obvious but unnoticeable to me at present.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:35:41 +0000

It is on my WordPress blogs. You have to ADD them as a User. They won’t appear on the author list unless they are set as a User at least at the author level. I’m adding a how to video to the article, just for you.

By: Rob Law

Rob Law — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:19:54 +0000

Lorelle,

The trouble is I don’t get the option to change the author, the drop down is not there. I’ll get a screen shot and put it in a reply to show you.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:05:23 +0000

You can bulk edit change authors. Simply check mark the posts appropriate to a specific author and choose bulk edit per the article instructions and change the name to whomever is appropriate from the user list. The authors must be in the user list. You cannot just type in their names. For information on how to add authors to WordPress without contacting the authors direction, see Genealogy Blog: Blog Contributors – Wanted Dead or Alive.