Batch Category Editor

Comments

1. Phil Nash (3 comments.) says:

   4/25/2008 at 11:15 am

   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!
2. L3ST (2 comments.) says:

   4/25/2008 at 12:59 pm

   This looks like a nice plugin. Thanks!
3. Chris (26 comments.) says:

   4/25/2008 at 1:19 pm

   I have worked my way through dozens of posts at a time making changes; not fun. This is a great find.
4. Haris (7 comments.) says:

   4/25/2008 at 3:05 pm

   Useful plugin. Thanks for sharing it here
5. Aaron (33 comments.) says:

   4/25/2008 at 7:30 pm

   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.
6. juns says:

   4/26/2008 at 6:45 am

   i am using this plugin for some of my blogs. it’s really cool, editing is much easy with this plugin.
7. Diseño Web (8 comments.) says:

   4/27/2008 at 3:16 pm

   Batch Category solves many problems in my life…… Useful at all.
8. Megapixels (12 comments.) says:

   4/30/2008 at 6:31 am

   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.
9. Lisa (1 comments.) says:

   7/17/2008 at 8:51 pm

   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!!
10. Dave Jackson (1 comments.) says:

    12/28/2008 at 5:26 pm

    This plugin no longer works with the latest WP 2.7.
    • Jeff Chandler (295 comments.) says:

      12/28/2008 at 6:05 pm

      It no longer needs to. It’s functionality was built into the core of WordPress 2.7
      • Ollie says:

        1/5/2009 at 6:23 pm

        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
        • Jeff Chandler (295 comments.) says:

          1/6/2009 at 12:36 am

          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.
          • Ollie says:

            1/6/2009 at 5:04 am

            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
          • Brad Hart (1 comments.) says:

            1/23/2009 at 5:31 am

            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…

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