Moving published posts to drafts, not trash

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  aunttammie · Member · Jul 9, 2012 at 3:42 pm

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  I want to revise my classroom blog for the new year. I need to delete several posts from the visible blog, but I want to save them for later. The only option I see is to move them to the trash, which I don’t want to do. I want to return them to the “Drafts” file. Surely this is an option? Seems like I have done it before, but I see no way to do it now. Suggestions?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2012 at 3:48 pm

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  You can bulk edit posts and change their status to draft.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit

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  aunttammie · Member · Jul 9, 2012 at 5:30 pm

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  That’s what I was hoping, but unfortunately, that isn’t an option under “Bulk,” at least not on mine. You can move to trash, but you can’t move to draft. I wonder if it is different depending on which template you are using?

  However, I finally did figure out how to change the posts to draft one at a time. Tedious, but it got the job done.

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2012 at 5:32 pm

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  Thanks for the update. I’m glad to hear you were able to do this though one at a time was tedious. Best wishes with your blog.