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

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

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:

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3. Click the small Quick Edit link beneath the post's name.

The post title will expand to become an editing pane:

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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.

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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!

 

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Do You Know Your Probability? - DailyBlogTips

Do You Know Your Probability? - DailyBlogTips

Do You Know Your Probability?

Posted: 19 Oct 2013 04:21 AM PDT

Probability theory is a relatively new mathematics branch. I say “relatively” because its study started in the sixteenth century, when people (e.g., Cardano, Fermat, Pascal) began analyzing games of chance and gambling. That’s old, but not even close to some other mathematics branches, like calculus (integral calculus was found in Egyptian papyrus dated 1820 BC!) or geometry.

Despite being a late bloomer, probability theory is a very important field today, with many applications in everyday life. Examples incluse insurance services, financial markets, medical sciences, computer sciences, artificial intelligence, and so on. For instance, when you use Google search or Facebook you are using it (i.e., there are algorithms in those services that rely on probability theory).

Even if you are not working in any of those fields I think you should know at least the basics of probability, as it can be useful in your everyday life.

For example, suppose a friend comes to you with the following bet: he will roll two dice, if the resulting sum is a number smaller than 8 you win and he will pay you $50, however if the sum is a equal to or greater than 8 you lose and you’ll need to pay him $50. Should you take the bet?

The answer is yes, cause you would have almost 60% chance of winning.

Want more practical applications? You could use it to optimize your landing pages, to measure the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns, of your guest posts and so on.

Now if you never studied probability and would like to learn the basics, of if you don’t remember it anymore but would like a refresher, check a post I wrote on my programming blog titled Introduction to Probability.

It’s quite long, but once you are done reading it you’ll know all the core probability principles.

Your wallet will thank me the next time you visit Las Vegas!

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