[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40918: Issue with bulk moving draft posts to new category

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#40918: Issue with bulk moving draft posts to new category
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 Reporter:  timtal                       |      Owner:
     Type:  feature request              |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Quick/Bulk Edit              |    Version:  4.7.5
 Severity:  normal                       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration, performance  |
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 Hello,

 I have found something that seems to be a bug, but I am not sure. Either
 way, it is worth reporting, as it has to do with bulk editing of drafts in
 Wordpress.

 The situation is like this: Assuming I have, say, 50 draft posts in the
 admin panel. They are ready to be published. But, they're in the wrong
 category.

 So, to change categories, I bulk-select all of them, and when the bulk
 editing window opens, I select the needed category. Upon the update,
 Wordpress does not MOVE all the selected posts to my new category, instead
 it ADDS the posts to the new category.

 So, what I have now is my 50 posts, assigned to both old and new
 categories. I again select bulk editing, and in the window I select ONLY
 the new category, hoping the posts would move there. The update doesn't do
 that - the posts are again in BOTH categories.

 The problem, as it seems to me, is that even when only one category is
 selected, WP doesn't MOVE the posts to the desired category, instead
 ADDING the selected category to the existing one.

 Since I am working with huge news archives and often move posts from one
 category to another, this is crucial to my work.

 I believe a tweak or a fix here would've been really helpful, as this is
 the case when one just doesn't want to use additional plugins for a rather
 easy task.

 I hope this report will be taken into consideration.

 Thank you,
 Regards, Tim

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