[…] Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » Batch Category Editor A day after I spend time editing posts one by one to clean up categories, I see this: a batch category editor for WordPress. Works pretty well to add/remove tags and categories from multiple posts at once. (tags: blogging wordpress) Posted by Sandy Kemsley on Friday, April 25, 2008, at 7:38 pm. Filed under Links. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog. […]
[…] *Plugin of the week* – The plugin of the week is called Batch Categories. Batch categories solves the problem of having to reassign categories to posts on a post by post basis. With batch categories you can reassign a number of posts to a category, remove a number of posts from a category, edit the tagging structure, and much more. – http://weblogtoolscollection.c.....ry-editor/ […]
[…] If you want to manage your blog categories (in WordPress), there is a plugin called Batch Categories. It will help us batch edit our posts, assign multiple posts to a category or delete multiple posts from a category in one fell swoop. (via) […]
[…] *Plugin of the week* – The plugin of the week is called Batch Categories. Batch categories solves the problem of having to reassign categories to posts on a post by post basis. With batch categories you can reassign a number of posts to a category, remove a number of posts from a category, edit the tagging structure, and much more. – http://weblogtoolscollection.c.....ry-editor/ […]
I deleted 1700 posts from a blog the other day, all from the same category. I was going to do it 20 at a time, which was painful, then I spent a while figuring out how to do it in the database with MySQL, which worked out nicely in the end. This would have made it much easier though! I think I’m going to get this for my blogs now, just in case I have to do something like that again!
This looks like a nice plugin. Thanks!
I have worked my way through dozens of posts at a time making changes; not fun. This is a great find.
Useful plugin. Thanks for sharing it here
My normal trick is to change the default category to the one I want the posts to end up in, delete the post’s category, and then restore my original default category.
i am using this plugin for some of my blogs. it’s really cool, editing is much easy with this plugin.
Batch Category solves many problems in my life…… Useful at all.
It’s a nice option to have. I tend towards doing stuff like this through MySql backend, but I’m always a little nervous about messing things up. Should help me sleep better.
Help! I recently started self hosting with WordPress. My categories got all messed up–most are uncategorized now and when i did the tag switch–it got rid of the categories. SO I downloaded this plug in and activated it. I go to manage–>batch categories and Filter the tags i want to see. Then i select the category (all my categories are still listed–just not on individ. posts) i want and hit ‘Add.’ Then it brings me to a screen saying: “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” Pls help! I have alot of posts to fix and this would be a life saver!
Thanks!!
This plugin no longer works with the latest WP 2.7.
It no longer needs to. It’s functionality was built into the core of WordPress 2.7
I don’t think so. I really can’t find any of the functionality from the plugin in WordPress 2.7.
Where should I look for it?
Ollie
Tell you what, I’ll dive into the 2.7 backend and see if I can mimic the functionality that was provided by the plugin. If so, I’ll write up a post/tutorial explaining batch editing in WordPress 2.7.
Woah, that would be fine! Thank you for that. I have noticed that you can batch edit posts and give them mutiple categories in this step. But it is not as powerful as the plugin was.
Bests,
Ollie
I agree I really miss the plugin since the functionality in wp 2.7 is greatly diminished. Gone are the days of moving every post in a category to a new category in one fell swoop… This isn’t a big deal until you have a bad import or try and merge multiple blogs with over lapping category names…