How can I bulk change post status to "pending"?

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  weishutong · Member · Mar 15, 2013 at 1:13 pm

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  Hello,
  I’d like to change the status of most of my posts (about 1.000) from “published” back to “pending”. How can I do that?
  I do *not* want to delete the posts.
  Thanks, Torsten

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  justpi · Member · Mar 15, 2013 at 5:23 pm

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  You can bulk edit posts, but only in batches of, say, up to 50 posts, otherwise the tool will crash.
  Why do you want to do this?

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  weishutong · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 8:48 am

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  Thanks and sorry for my late reply (bad cold).
  Why: Most info is not up-to-date anymore.

  You said I can bulk edit posts, but I don’t see how I could change the status of posts in bulk.

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  justpi · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 10:28 am

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  Posts > All Posts: click the little squares to select posts (or click the little square to the right of “Title” to select all the posts on the screen), select Edit from the Bulk Actions pulldown, click Apply, select desired status from the Status pulldown, click Update.

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  weishutong · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 8:28 am

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  Hello justpi,
  so easy… Thanks a bundle, worked perfectly!
  Torsten