Bulk Editing of Posts and Categories, Tags, and other Terms

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We've found two plugins that make editing a batch  of posts and categories a snap!  First, use Term Management Tools by Scribu to turn all those categories into a nice easy to manage hierarchy of main categories, sub-categories, and tags. Then use Batch Cat by Lenin Lee to add /edit / remove the appropriate terms from the posts in bulk. I just edited several hundred categories and 1,700 posts in about 30 minutes. We heart plugin authors!   … [Read more...]

StudioPress User's Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet is for any custom design based on StudioPress themes. The Featured Content Gallery(FCG) - this is the slideshow that is across the home page. 1.  To get an image to show up in the Featured Content Gallery: create a new post with title, text (if desired), and images (if desired, not necessary) upload the picture for the FCG to your flickr account or media library from Media>>Add New copy the picture's URL to your clipboard go back to the post you added, and below the post >> edit box, find the "Custom Field" box. enter "articleimg" in the Key box, and … [Read more...]

WordPress Tip: easily add tags and categories to lots of posts

If you are like me, there are posts where you were just stuck as to how to organize them, what categories and tags should really be attached. So you probably just published the post with the good old standby "uncategorized" category. When it is time to organize those posts and bring some of that writing to light again, you can do this quickly and easily in the bulk editing screen. Log into the admin panel (or back end) of the blog. Open the "Posts" panel to view a list of your posts. Select the "uncategorized" from the category drop down, and click on "filter". Under "bulk actions" in … [Read more...]

10 Tips to Keep Posts Organized

One of the risks of blogging is that a lot of your best writing may get lost under a pile of reverse chronologically organized posts.  Let's keep the best writing front and center, shall we? Built-In Organization 1.  Use PAGES like they were intended.  From the WordPress codex: Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless -- information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content. Other examples of common pages include Copyright, Legal … [Read more...]

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