WordPress makes creating and publishing content easy. With WordPress, all you really need to do is think, write and publish.
Whether you have a home-based business or a personal blog, there is a lot you can write about. Before too long, you can find hundreds of published articles on your website … especially if you run an e-commerce site with hundreds of products.
(How do you bulk edit hundreds of WordPress posts?)
WordPress Bulk Editing Plugin
What happens if, let’s say, after a period of time, you have many of published posts and pages on your website and discover that you have to replace a word, phrase or link that displays throughout your website’s content?
If you like messing around with code, you could do bulk changes inside your WP sql database files.
Luckily, if you are a non-technical WordPress user, there is a plugin that lets you make bulk changes to your posts and pages without having to open sql databases or files.
WP Bulk Editor – Bulk Editing WordPress Plugin
(WP BulkEditor – WordPress Bulk Editing Plugin)
Plugin Description
WPBulkEditor is a simple and easy-to-use bulk editing WordPress plugin that lets you change hundreds of WP posts and pages at once.
WP BulkEditor is quick to install and simple to use. Once installed and activated, it adds functionality to your WP dashboard with similar features to the WordPress Tools > Export/Import area. You simply download a template with all of your site’s information, modify the template’s content and then reupload the document with all the changes you have made and your content will be updated throughout the web pages.
More info: WP Bulk Editor
Benefits Of Using WPBulkEditor
Here are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using WPBulkEditor to bulk edit your site:
Unlimited Number Of WordPress Posts & Pages You Can Bulk Edit
WP Bulk Editor lets you replace text strings on all of your WP posts & pages at once.
Edit WordPress Content Offline
The plugin lets you to work on all of your content updates offline. This is useful if you want to do work in locations where there is no online access, or outsource the work to staff without having to give them access to your WordPress site.
Make Fast Backups Of Your Website
You can make backups of your website content quickly and easily with this plugin.
Additional benefits include the following:
- Easy To Use: There are just 3 easy steps to using this WordPress plugin: export the data, editing and saving your edits, and reimporting the data to your site.
- Import Content: You can import and export one or lots of new WordPress post and pages with the click of a button.
- Make Bulk SEO Changes: If you use a plugin like WordPress SEO by Yoast, you can quickly make bulk edits to parts of your product SEO descriptors.
Plugin Features
WP Bulk Editor provides a number of features to WordPress users. Here are just a few of these:
- Fast and easy to install and implement. Goes to work in no time.
- Compatibility with other WordPress plugins and themes. Works with WordPress SEO by Yoast and online commerce themes like WooThemes.
- Newbie-friendly bulk replacement tool. Perform bulk replacements of affiliate links, misspelt text, etc. with no coding knowledge required. Note: Microsoft Excel is required to open and change exported files offline.
- Works On Windows And Mac Platforms.WP BulkEditor allows both Windows and Mac users to use the same .zip file on both operating systems.
User Testimonials
Here are a few of the testimonials that users have written about WPBulkEditor:
“Editing my WordPress pages and posts truly never was this easy!” Tim Jenkins, large blog owner.
Plugin Tips
WPBulkEditor is not just a practical tool for performing mass editing functions on your existing WordPress posts. You can also use it to update all of your sites.
If you have old affiliate hyperlinks pointing to missing destinations, for example, you can quickly replace those non-working URLs with active links.
Here’s a useful tip: Let’s say that you finish all posts on your business blog with a call to action that includes asking visitors to contact such and such a person (e.g. “To request a quote call John on 1234-567890”) and this individual quits your team. You can replace the name of the departed contact person with the new contact person’s name, and do the same thing for their email addresses, telephone numbers, etc. You can even recreate posts with different city names for publishing on regional websites!
Support
The WP Bulk Editor website contains a short video tutorial that shows you how to use the plugin, and the developer can be contacted for support and additional questions, or for suggestions on ways to improve the plugin.
Software Price
Last time we checked, the cost of purchasing WP BulkEditor is $49.
Please Note: Pricing details of the WP Bulk Editor software can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The pricing shown above was correct when this review was written. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the product seller when you visit the plugin website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details: WP Bulk Editor – WordPress Bulk Editing Plugin
Additional Plugin Info
For demo videos of the plugin in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the WP Bulk Editor website.
We Recommend
If you are looking for a simple solution to perform bulk edits on your site or blog, then WP Bulk Editor is a great plugin to keep in mind. It is sold with a sixty-day, completely no-risk money-back guarantee, which is backed by the payment processing company, so no matter what happens, you will be automatically refunded if you’re dissatisfied in any way with your purchase.
For more information, check out the plugin here: WP Bulk Editor – WordPress Bulk Editing Plugin
Alternatively, here’s another WordPress bulk editor plugin you can check out …
WordPress Advanced Bulk Edit
(WordPress Advanced Bulk Edit)
WordPress Advanced Bulk Edit plugin lets you easily edit your posts, pages and custom post types individually or in bulk …
(Advanced Bulk Edit screen)
Some of the features of this powerful bulk editor plugin includes filtering posts by title, category, tags, description and excerpt, status, and post author. Bulk editing functions include appending, prepending and replacing text in text fields, increasing and decreasing by value/percent, setting, adding, and removing categories, and being able to copy values from one field to another …
(Bulk Edit Select Posts screen)
Additional features include the ability to show/hide table columns, create posts and categories, delete posts and the option to delete images from the server when permanently deleting posts …
(Delete images from server when deleting posts)
The plugin also includes support for custom meta fields and custom taxonomies, linked editing of selected products (quick bulk edit), customizable post limit, translation support and a powerful selection manager that lets you select posts via search conditions …
(Selection Manager screen)
You can also export posts to a CSV file …
(Export posts to a CSV file)
WordPress Advanced Bulk Edit supports the following fields for bulk editing:
- Title
- Description
- Excerpt
- Publish Date
- Post Author
- Post Slug
- Categories
- Tags
- Image
- Status (draft, published, private, pending)
- Post Permalink
- Post Format
- Menu Order
- Comment Status
For more information, check out the plugin here: WordPress Advanced Bulk Edit
Additional Resources
To learn how to make global changes to WordPress post and pages, see the tutorial below:
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