[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4099: Bulk Edit Blogroll Categories

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#4099: Bulk Edit Blogroll Categories
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 Reporter:  technosailor    |        Owner:  technosailor
     Type:  defect          |       Status:  new         
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.3         
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.2         
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  blogroll links  |  
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Comment (by technosailor):

 Replying to [comment:3 ryan]:
 > If upgrade is screwing up category associations, upgrade needs to be
 fixed. wp_update_link() exists in admin-db.php, yes?
 >
 Yep, you're right. My grep wasn't finding it for some reason, but then
 again, I could just be dimwitted or in a period of caffeine-shortage.
 Either way, you're right.


 > I'm not overly fond of most bulk editing UI except in comment moderation
 where it is really needed.  Seems like a marginal, tweaker feature that is
 best in a plugin.  Given that links now support multiple categories,
 having bulk reassignment to one category seems even less generally useful.
 Or perhaps I'm out of touch with how compulsive people are about re-
 categorizing their links in bulk.  People get crazy about taxonomy and
 stats. ;-)

 If you give users the ability to have multiple blogrolls, and that is what
 you're doing by assigning categories to links, then IMHO you need to
 provide a way to do things in bulk - whether it's on upgrade (in which
 case upgrade.php DOES need to be fixed) or later down the road when the
 blogroll from 5 different areas of blogging gets so unwieldy that they
 have to reorg.

 Since moving to WP 2.1, I have had at least a dozen people looking for
 help because they have 150+ blogroll links (thanks to some OPML import)
 and there was no category association. Having to do this manually was
 really a no-go as it was time consuming.

 Giving a bulk move functionality is not that much bloat and it gives
 plenty of people a way out should they need it - for either of the two
 situations I just mentioned - and I'm sure there's more.

 I'm jus' sayin'. ;)

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