Manage multiple posts
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It would be great if we could manage multiple posts at once. Sometimes I want to toggle private/public settings, or move them between categories and it’s a pain to have to do it individually.
So, please? Mass edit function? :)
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I have to say that this has been the bane of my WordPress presence. I would LOVE to not have to manually edit 680 posts that I have uploaded to my new blog individually. Mass edit for everything, I say. Posts, Categories, Comments, Delete options. It would be just about PERFECT then. I would love this to be with the downloaded version as well as the one hosted by WordPress.
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I would love to be able to bulk edit and bulk delete but as yet this is not avaialble to us. Most particularly I would like to be able to handle my excessive number of categories (over 100) by using a bulk re-assignment finction to reduce them to 25. This has been requested previously and you can add your voice to the others making this plea by sending in a feedback to staff. :)
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Hooray!
Take a look at your Blogroll Management page folks. Staff have provided us with a new option for bulk management of links. My thanks to the beloved geeks for listening and delivering. :)“Now, it’s about bulk management of Categories,” she said … “I think we can safely assume you’re working on that, right?” ;)
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I would like the mass edit of posts for deletion and changing categories. Mass deletion always scares me though…..sometimes a deletion can happen by accident and maybe that is the reason that it doesn’t exist for posts? Either way, I am happy with what you have (and get in future!)
Trent
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And while on the subject of ‘mass edit’ and ‘bulk edit’ how about mass or bulk emailing to all editors, authors, and contributors while trying to manage posts or comments.
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Too easy for spammers to abuse probably. Feel free to send in a feedback though with this suggestion.
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The mailto function is active on the “User List by Role” page. Isn’t this already susceptible to spamming then as well? Or are you just saying that it would be making it easier? I just put in a feedback as well.
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Easier. The mailto tag is one at a time. The email everybody is everybody. Granted though its less of a problem than a “email my friend” function.
They may add it in.
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drmike: please advise on an alternative to uploading posts manually. I would like to upload many posts of a similar format which are to be associated with different categories and if there is a quick way of doing this then I would like to know it before I waste a lot of time. Thanks.
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Depends. What are you looking at? Are your posts in some format or a file? What platform at you taking them from?
Just for reference, please don’t address posts directly to me. It upsets certain employees of Automattic, the owners of this website and service and they send me nasty little emails since some of them think I’m passing myself off as an employee. I’m not.
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sorry about that – I was simply referring to your earlier post
my data is currently in an excel spreadsheet but I could extra it into some other format if necessary in order to ease the batch upload.
I want my posts to look like this:
Postname
Label1: Text1
Label2: Text2
Label3: Text3
Label4: Text4
(Ideally I would like to be able to associate the posts with multiple categories but this could be done manually after the batch upload if it is not possible)
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Best bet would be to send in a feedback. Staff may have some method of importing from an Excel file. From what we have here, the closest thing would be the wordpress importer if you exported out into a *.xml file and that would drop each “article” you have in teh spreadsheet into a single post if it worked.
You should probably work something out with the regular wordpress software from wordpress.org and found yourself a host elsewhere though but you would have to work the import yourself and/or directly into the database.
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I’m casting my vote for mass edit for categories. That’s the one thing Blogger did that WordPress doesn’t seem to do, and I miss it.
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