WordPress – How to bulk edit category

  1. I have been using a self hosted WordPress platform since 2006.
  2. Have been a happy user and I highly recommend WordPress to anyone who is geeky enough to spend time “caressing” it.
  3. This awesome CMS has registered more features by every release. So much so that I don’t even keep track. Example of this is edit post category.
  4. I have been modifying the category one by one like an idiot for a very – very long time.

Step One

First, filter the posts you want to bulk edit.

Navigate to “Post”, “All Post” and “Filter”.

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How-to filter WordPress posts

Step Two

Now, navigate to “Edit” (carefully, away from the iceberg. You know what happen to Titanic)

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How-to bulk edit

Step Three

You will now be presented with “Categories [more]’, “Tag”, “Author” and et cetera; that you can manipulate to your heart’s content.

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WordPress – Ready for editing

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4 responses to “WordPress – How to bulk edit category”

  1. You forgot to mention the famous “if wordpress is missing some feature, most likely there is a plugin for it”, even being not optimal in performance and general architecture WP is the most plugin-extendable CMS, with huge repo of free and paid themes and plugins W3Tech stats report “WordPress is used by 54.7% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 17.6% of all websites.”, really impressive.

    • Just like “there’s an app for that” huh? hahaha

      The market share for WordPress is impressive I would not have thought that WP world survive that long and remind free, without ads for that long.

      I’m getting that 10th Anniversary WP T-shirt.

      • Like 🙂

        Yes, very impressive, every 5th site is WordPress based, they can do without adds, they have wordpress.com to monetize, and some subprojects, maybe they gain money too…

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        • Im getting the grey colour. I love grey colour, looks clean and matchable with any other colour you want to go with 😀