Bulk addition of new tags

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  sinthea · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 10:36 am

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  Hi. I have combed through the Support docs about Tags, can’t find any mention of this… am I missing something or is it not possible? What I want to do is this: I have not used tags in past, and am now ready to add them to existing content. Is there any way to bulk ADD tags to posts? I find instructions about bulk deletions, but not bulk adds. I was hoping for something where I could get a list of all articles, and tick the ones to which I wanted to add a particular tag. Thanks very much.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 10:43 am

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  Yes, you can use the post bulk edit feature to add tags to multiple posts at once.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 10:43 am

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  You can’t “tick” them off, but you can type them in.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 10:45 am

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  See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 10:45 am

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  sinthea · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 10:57 am

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  Hello Sacred Path! I am following those instructions (red faced I didnt find that in my searching, but… thank you!) and curious – when I look at the bulk edit field that opens up, under Tags I have an empty box – it is not offering me the tag that I created previously through the Post Tags page… Should previously created tag names show up so I can pick them, or must I always re-type? A little concerned I could inadvertently create spurious tags by means of bad typing. thank you!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 10:58 am

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  G’day Panos, it’s all yours. I’m shutting down and going to bed.

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  sinthea · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 11:01 am

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  I think we were all typing at once. Guess I need to be very careful in my typing. Thanks, both of you, sleep well… I am happy for this to be closed unless you have anything further, Panos… thank you.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 11:28 am

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  Yes, unfortunately in Bulk Edit you can see your existing categories but not your existing tags, and you have to re-type the tags. But it’s ok. The only thing that would create technical problems is if you type a word or a phrase that’s already being used as a category.

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  sinthea · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 4:08 pm

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  Ok, thanks again! Will close this now.