WordPress is a powerful platform to organise almost any type of content management system, such as Blog, E-Commerce, Portal on your Website. Managing different page templates and its hierarchy is very handy and so are the bulk publishing tools. In this article, we learn about how to bulk edit or publish pages in WordPress.
Bulk Edit Pages
To locate bulk actions in WordPress, navigate to Dashboard > All Pages. Just below the Pages Heading and above the pages listing, there is a drop-down selection box “Bulk Actions“. In contrast, this selection box extend bulk editing capabilities for our content management system.
To use bulk editing functionality, we must select the checkboxes located next to post titles. Because we are editing the WordPress pages in bulk. After multi-selecting the pages, select “Edit” to bulk edit the WordPress pages. Or “Move to Bin” to trash all the WordPress pages together.
Bulk Edit Actions for WordPress Pages
If you select “Edit” bulk action, then we get the following options, as visible in the screenshot below.
On the left most pane, it shows the selected page items, followed by the author, parents. This method is very useful to assign a single template to multiple pages. Similarly, you may assign Author, Allow Comments or Disallow comments, etc.
Bulk Publish WordPress Pages
To change the Status of the page from draft to Published or Pending Review, click on the Status selection box. So, Select “Published” option followed by “Update” button to change the status of the WordPress pages.
Once you press the update button, WordPress will perform bulk actions to the WordPress pages.
Note: All actions performed cannot be rolled back, hence update with utmost of care.
Also, keep reading for how to bulk edit or publish Products.
Does this mean that if I upload four posts, then want to schedule them together for a certain common time, I can use bulk action button and schedule them together?
Yes, you’re correct. Bulk editing actions are very productive in case of multi-author blogs and you can use it in the best possible way. 🙂