Save Time With the WordPress “Quick Edit” and “Bulk Actions” Features - DailyBlogTips

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Save Time With the WordPress “Quick Edit” and “Bulk Actions” Features Posted: 21 Oct 2013 04:30 AM PDT It's a safe bet that you know how to add and edit posts in WordPress – but you might not be so familiar with its Quick Edit and Bulk Actions features. While both of these are easy to use, it's not necessarily obvious if you don't know what you're looking for. Quick Edit is a great way to make changes to an individual post, or a few posts. Bulk Actions allows you to edit multiple posts at once (though you have to make the same change, or changes, to each). Editing Posts with Quick Edit 1. Login to your blog's dashboard and go to Posts –> All Posts. 2. Hover your cursor over the title of a post you want to edit: 3. Click the small Quick Edit link beneath the post's name. The post title will expand to become an editing pane: Although you can't use the Quick Edit feature to edit the text of your post itself, you can change quite a few details, including: The title The post slug (which appears at the end of the URL) The date on which the post was published Whether the post is password protected, or private The post's category The post's tags Whether comments and pings are allowed The post's status (draft, pending review, published) Whether or not the post is "sticky" (which means it appears at the top of your blog, regardless of whether there are newer posts) Editing Posts in Bulk If you need to make changes to several posts, doing so in the Quick Edit mode is quicker than opening up the full editing view each time. Even better, though, you can use the Bulk Actions option to make changes to a whole lot of posts at once. Simply: Check the posts you want to edit (to select all posts on the page, click the top checkbox). Under the Bulk Actions menu, select Edit and click Apply. You can't make so many changes as with Quick Edit, but you can change categories, tags, author (if you're an admin), comments and pings, published status, and whether or not the post is sticky. Why might you want to bulk edit posts? Let's say that two of you – Sue and Bob – have been writing a blog under one user account, "Sue", and you've now added a new account, "Bob". Rather than editing each post individually, you can simply select all the posts that Bob wrote, and assign them to the "Bob" account using a bulk edit. Here's another example: you've decided to switch off comments on a bunch of posts. Through this screen, you can do it in seconds – rather than spending ages editing each individual post.   Was this all news to you, or have you used the Quick Edit and/or Bulk Actions features before? Let us know your experiences in the comments!   Wanna learn how to make more money with your website? Check the Online Profits training program!

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