How to bulk edit post properties in seconds

Have you ever been faced with the situation where you wanted to change a property of a large number of your posts in bulk, like for example to allow comments, publish or un-publish them and didn’t know how to do that in a single step ? ( without the need to open your database and change the values over there manually.)

I was in this situation today, and found a quick and easy way to do that and here is how:( check attached image below)

1. Go to your posts page and put a check mark next to the posts you want to affect.
2. Click on the drop-down that says” Bulk Actions” and choose Edit and click Apply.
3. This opens up a  screen which allows you to choose from the options to do:
   • Assign posts to categories
   • Assign tags to posts
   • Allow or dis-allow comments
   • Allow or dis-allow pings
   • Publish or Un-publish them
   • Makes  posts sticky or not
4. Press Update and you’re Done!

Bulk edit posts

Add the read more link :: WP Quick tip 1

A lot of times you want to have your main blog page display only a part of your post and have a link that takes the reader to the post itself if they like it and want to learn more about the topic.

Some themes are setup to do so by default using what is known as the excerpt , however, most of the others will need a small step on your part.

To do so:

While in the Edit Post panel, just place your cursor where you want the text to get cut off, and click on the “Insert More Tag” button above.( see screen shot for to find out how the button looks), save your changes and you’re good to go.

Red arrow showing the Insert More Tag button

Very simple, right!

Try it and let me know if you face any problems with it.

WordPress Intro:: Posts and Pages

This is part 1 of a WordPress How-to video series.

Topics covered in Screen Cast:

• Posts vs. Pages
• Adding Images to Posts
• Categories for Posts

Hope you find this first part of a series useful and I look forward to hearing any comments or suggestion to improve it further.

N.B.:

This screen cast was originally shot for a client named David, that’s why you will find my referring to him by name into the narration.