Site icon TheCreatology.com

How to Bulk Publish or Bulk Edit Posts, Pages & Products in WordPress?

WordPress is a powerful platform to organise almost any type of content management system, such as Blog, E-Commerce, Portal on your Website. Managing content, products 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 posts, pages and products in WordPress.

Bulk Edit Posts

To locate bulk actions in WordPress, navigate to Dashboard > All Posts. Just below the Posts Heading and above the posts 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 posts in bulk. After multi-selecting the posts, select “Edit” to bulk edit the posts. Or “Move to Bin” to trash all the WordPress posts together.

Edit Actions for WordPress Posts

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 post items, followed by the categories. This method is very useful to assign a single category to multiple posts. Similarly, you may assign Author, Allow Comments or Disallow comments, etc.

Bulk Publish WordPress Posts

To change the Status of the post 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 posts.

Once you press the update button, WordPress will perform bulk actions to the WordPress posts.

Note: All actions performed cannot be rolled back, hence update with utmost of care.

Also keep reading for Pages and Products.

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.

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 products 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 WooCommerce Products in WordPress.

Bulk Edit WooCommerce Products

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 Woocommerce products in bulk. After multi-selecting the pages, select “Edit” to bulk edit the WordPress products. Or “Move to Bin” to trash all the Woocommerce products together.

Bulk Edit Actions for WordPress Products

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 product items, followed by the product categories, status, product data. This method is very useful to assign a single product category to multiple products.

Bulk Publish Woocommerce Products

To change the Status of the product from draft to Published or Pending Review, click on the Status selection box. Select “Published” option followed by “Update” button to change the status of the WordPress products.

Bulk Edit Product Price, Sale Price, Tax & Stock

To change the price, tax, shipping class or stock of the product, click on the selection boxes under Product data. Select desired options followed by “Update” button to apply changes to all the WordPress products.


Change Product Price
Change Sale Price
Change Tax Status
Manage Stock

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.

Exit mobile version