Batch Category Editor
Jeff Chandler 
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Just the other day, I ran into a problem. I deleted a number of categories on my blog and since WordPress does not give you the option of reassigning the posts within those categories to another category, all of those posts were reassigned to Uncategorized. The answer to this problem? Batch Categories.
Batch Categories is a WordPress plugin written by Rob Miller that adds some powerful functionality into the default WordPress category editor. 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 so much more. Batch Categories also includes a number of enhanced post filters to make finding those posts much easier. This is what the plugin back end looks like.
There are two different versions of this plugin. One for WordPress 2.3.3 and one for WordPress 2.5. This is the type of functionality that really makes managing a number of posts easier and I thank Rob for creating this plugin as it solved my issue and I’m sure it will be of use to many of you. No more editing one post at a time!
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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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.
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i am using this plugin for some of my blogs. it’s really cool, editing is much easy with this plugin.
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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.