# WPBulky-WordPress Bulk Edit Post Types

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Created: 09/2021
Latest update: 09/2021

By: VillaTheme

### FILE INCLUDES

- The installable zip file wpbulky-wordpress-bulk-edit-post-types.zip

### DOWNLOAD AND INSTALLATION

## System Requires

It is recommended using

1. WordPress 5.0.x

2. PHP 7

## Download Plugin

Get the plugin installation package from your account download page and save it to your desktop.

## Install & Active plugin

Go to Plugins/ Add New/ Upload Plugin/ Choose file/ Select wpbulky-wordpress-bulk-edit-post-types.zip / click “Install Now“/ click “Active plugin”.

You can see video guide – 7 minutes BULK Edit Post Meta data with WPBulky – WordPress Bulk Edit Post Types.

### HOW TO USE

In this documentation, we focus on 3 default WordPress post types: Posts, Pages, Media.

Step 1: Go to WPBulky > Posts

Step 2: Filter Based on Post Properties

Click on the Filter icon , you can use tools to filter posts that you want to edit in bulk. The plugin is available with sufficient filters for all properties of a post.

Step 3: Filter Fields to edit and settings

Click on the Settings icon , you can easily select one or/and many fields of a post to interact and work with. Besides, some settings help you more convenient in working with fields and posts.

Step 4: Edit Post Properties in Bulk

Go to the editing areas, click directly on the property fields of a post to edit.

After filtering posts and fields that you need to change the post properties, let’s go to edit them in bulk, see the guide in the Edit Post Properties in Bulk section.

Step 5: Bulk edit custom meta fields

Click on the Meta fields icon . Just like other post type fields, you can also bulk update and edit custom meta fields.

For example, to update a meta-field called Custom Meta for post type, you need to activate the meta key of the equivalent meta-field in this text field. You can activate multiple meta-keys at once.

Step 6: See the change and revert the edit if needed in the History

Click on the History icon . History helps to record the edits so that you can see the change and revert the edit if needed.

### HOW DOES IT WORK

#### Filter Based on Properties of Post Types

You can use tools to filter posts, Pages, Media that you want to edit in bulk.

WPBulky WordPress Bulk Edit Post Types is available with the following filters all properties of a post type: ID, Title, Content, Excerpt, Slug, Range of Post date, Post status, Categories, Tags, Formats, Author.

- ID: You can filter the range of posts by post ID, separate IDs with commas or minus for range.

1. Click Filter icon
2. Enter post IDs that you need to filter.
3. Click Filter to take action.

- Title, Content, Excerpt, Slug: These allow you to filter a post by the post Titles, Content, Excerpt, Slug that can be exact, like, not include, begin, end, or empty content. The example below is to filter post with Title:

1. Click the Filter icon.
2. Enter a post title keyword that you need to filter
3. Select an action to filter with key work of the title that can be exact, like, not include, begin, end, or empty content.
4. Click Filter to take action.

- Post date: You can filter posts based on a range of post dates.

1. Click the Filter icon.
2. Enter post date from and to, to filter posts by post date.
3. Click Filter to take action.

- Post status: Filter posts by status: Draft, pending, private, public.

- Author: Filter posts based on the author.

- Categories, tags, formats: Select to filter posts by categories, tags, formats.

1. Click the Filter icon.
2. Enter categories and sub-categories that you need to filter
3. Select an action to filter with selected categories and sub-categories that can be or, end, not in.
4. Click Filter to take action.

#### Settings

Filter Fields to edit

You can easily select one or/and many fields of posts, pages, media to interact and work with. This helps to filter relevant fields that you are interested in and observe objects and tables more conveniently and effectively.

1. Click on the settings.
2. Filter to fields: Select fields to work with, the other fields will be hidden. Leave empty to show all fields. You can exclude fields to edit.
3. The Search tool to find the fields to edit.
4. Save the action.
5. The result after filtering fields.

1. Click on the settings.
2. Post per page: Allows to show a number of posts per page
3. Order by: Filter by ID, Title
4. Order: Sort order by DESC or ASC
5. Time to delete revision: Set time schedule to delete the history
6. Save filter when load page: allows to save filter whenever you load the page.
7. Save.

#### Edit Post types in Bulk

After filtering post types and fields that you need to change their properties, let’s go to edit them in bulk.

1. Bulk Edit post Title, Slug, Content, Excerpt:

You can edit post titles along with the other fields with the following options:

- Set new: Set a new post title.
- Append: Add custom text at the end of the existing product title.
- Prepend: Add custom text at the beginning of the existing product title.
- Edit multiple cells: Select multi cells to edit.
- Go to edit product page
- View on single product page
- Delete selected rows
- Copy
- Paste
- Duplicate: Duplicate the selected row
- Preview: Go to see the post on the front end.

2. Bulk Edit post images.

You can Add, Remove, or Replace post images.

3. Bulk Edit public dates.

You can reset or assign a new public date for posts.

4. Bulk Edit post status.

You can bulk edit a post’s status include Draft, pending, private, public.

5. Bulk Edit post categories

6. Bulk Edit post tags.

7. Bulk Edit formats

#### Meta Fields

Click on the Meta fields icon . Just like other post type fields, you can also bulk update and edit custom meta fields.

For example, to update a meta-field called Custom Meta for post type, you need to activate the meta key of the equivalent meta-field in this text field. You can activate multiple meta-keys at once.

1. Click on the Meta fields icon
2. Meta key of custom post type.
3. Column name: Rename the custom fields as you want (after rename, click Save and reload the page).
4. Value format: Json, array, textinput/numberinput/texteditor.
5. Column type.
6. Active: Tick to activate which custom fields
7. Action: Remove or move a meta key.
8. Get meta fields: Click to get meta fields to edit
9. Save.
10. New meta key: Add a new custom field of post type on the meta data.
11. Show custom meta fields to edit.

#### History

History helps to record the edits so that you can see the change and revert the edit if needed.

1. Click on the history icon.
2. Date: Record the edited events by date.
3. User: Who made the edit
4. Action: See the edit at each point in detail, revert the edit at each point if needed.
5. History point: Show the edit at a point in detail.
6. Revert all posts at this point: Revert the edit at a point of all posts ( In the 5.)

### EXTRA INFORMATION

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