[wp-hackers] Mass Edit [Category Changes]

Shelley Powers burningbird at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 21:08:58 UTC 2004


A mass edit for posts for setting comment and post status would be
good, but category changing ala MT doesn't necessarily fit the type of
data model for Wordpress.

In Movable Type, there is zero or one primary category and then zero
or more secondary categories. It makes sense to have a dropdown box
and set and re-set the primary category.

Wordpress doesn't have a primarily category. It just has zero or more
categories, period. So what would you show as the existing value in
the box? The first one that just happens to get returned in the query?
What about the others?

You could do a multi-select box, but then the mass edit window will
look mighty bizarre.

So the question is: how would you deal with category in a mass edit page?

Shelley


On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:31:49 -0700, Danny Dawson <quasistoic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would be very interedted in this also.  I want to import my
> uncategorized MT posts and then categorize them, but opening each post
> to assign a category seems a pain...
> 
> --Danny
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:32:56 -0700, Doug Daulton
> <ddaulton at ursastudios.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a hack (planned or completed) that allows one to
> > view X number of pposts at once and change categories and other
> > details?  This would be similar to MTs "Power Edit" mode.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Doug
> >
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