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Bulk editing of past posts

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    dcmontreal · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 4:44 pm
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    I just changed my theme and the byline I have been using up to now is too wide. Altering it is easy, but is there a way to “bulk edit” this one little change on my earlier posts? Or do I have to open every post and change the byline width? Thanks!!

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    timethief · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 4:54 pm
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    Changing your blog’s Site Title and/or the optional Tagline on this page > Settings > General universally applies to what’s displayed on every page in the entire blog.

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    dcmontreal · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 5:12 pm
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    Thanks for replying timethief. It’s not the title or tagline that want to edit, but rather a short byline that I paste at the end of my posts. This is why I think I will have to edit each one on its own…

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    timethief · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 5:20 pm
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    If you are adding anything to the end of your posts then there is no find and replace function that can and will bulk edit the posts and remove it. That has to be done manually.

    DCMontreal is a Montreal writer born and raised who likes to establish balance and juxtapositions; a bit of this and a bit of that, a dash of Yin and a soupçon of Yang, some Peaks and Freans and maybe a bit of a sting in the tail! Please follow DC on Twitter @DCMontreal and on Facebook, and add him on Google+

    However, if you have one of the few themes that do display an author profile below every post the data derived from here > Dashboard > Users > My Profile > About You (section) and appears appears on your Gravatar profile page as well. You can edit it on that page and in that section.

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    timethief · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 5:21 pm
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    For a partial list of themes that provide author bylines and/or author profiles or not see > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/author-displayed-or-not/

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    dcmontreal · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 5:29 pm
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    Thanks very much for your help!

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