[wp-hackers] Mass Edit [Category Changes]

[Shelley Powers]

So you're saying that the person selects several rows and then add
changes for a category across all at a time.

The problem with this is that really doesn't do a great job with
multiple-categories. I can see a person wanting to remove one
category, but several are removed because of the nature of the beast.

How's this, a variation on what Matt said:

Page has a post title, a dropdown for post status, a dropdown for
comment status, and then all of the categories are listed to the side,
with a checkbox for each -- checked if currently selected. Since the
titles won't fit next to them, without it getting really ugly, they're
listed as column headers, in a vertical line above each checkbox.

So my category Sensory would be like:

S
e
n
s
o
r
y

This cuts a bit of header space, especially if the category names are
long. Could abbreviate the category, just show the first 10 or 20
characters and then have this wrap a link to the category page, and
then assign a title with the full category name.

With this, a person could go down the row, change post status, change
comment, status, and go wild with checking and unchecking checkboxes.

Matt, were you thinking of something like this?

Shelley


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:36:47 +0100 (BST), Graeme Lennon
<graeme at samurai.com> wrote:
> I would suggest a side-bar with all the categories listed, like in the
> current edit mode window, except with three radio buttons rather than
> checkboxes. The three options would either assign the category, remove the
> category, or leave the current status of the category alone, to the
> selected posts.
> 
> I'm personally not a fan of JavaScript solutions, at least when other
> options are available.
> 
> g.
> 
> 
> 
> > 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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