Questions tagged [bulk]
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Custom bulk action with followup question/page?
I'm trying to create a bulk action to my User List page, but I do need extra parameters and possibly confirmation step.
I know how to create a simple bulk action, but I need to set a specific ACF ...
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Bulk update custom post types
I'm using built in theme custom post types and I made XML import with posts to this custom post types. Everything work, but not a filter for these custom post types. If I update manually every custom ...
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Delete large original image files (Bulk)
The new way of handling big images introduced in WordPress 5.3 leads to a nice reduction in traffic but doesn't offer any savings regarding storage space (usage of server disk space).
A customer ...
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Bulk upload images with custom URL
I am running a library system on Wordpress. Right now, my book cover images are saved like this:
/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/[book_barcode].jpg
I want to change this to /wp-content/uploads/library/[...
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How to get inserted row IDs for bulk/batch insert with wpdb query?
I'm writing a plugin where I need to save data in custom tables, function hits an API and then saves data for which I need bulk insert, but as wpdb doesn't support it out of the box I made a function ...
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Bulk image link changer
I have been searching for a solution to the below problem, for the past 2 days. I've seen some useful code related to similar issues, but none that addresses my specific requirements. I've tried ...
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How can I create or edit posts in bulk with featured images?
I am changing the structure of my site in a way that basically requires me to recreate every post.
I have been looking into bulk post creation tools but the ones I find only let me set up a title, and ...
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How to bulk remove image links from posts?
I've just migrated my blogspot to worpress with own domain but, images link to blogspot site.
I found I could replace the code with a regex plugin: Search Regex and tried with this regex:
/<a ([\...
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Bulk edit Gutenberg single images to change from linking to media file to attachment page
I have several hundred posts which include a mix of single image and gallery blocks. All of them currently link to media file. What's the fastest way to change this to attachment page instead? (And ...
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Sending bulk mail to a certain number of users
We would like to send bulk mail to the user list using wp_mail() function.
Is it possible to send e-mail to users at a certain time (similar to newsletter plugins)? For example, dividing the list of ...
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How can i edit all posts slug in bulk keeping WP native redirect?
When i edit a single post slug the old url redirects to the new one automatically.
I need to do this in bulk.
There is a text that appears on thousands of permalinks and i want to remove it from ...
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Replace a character in all post titles and slugs
I have hundreds of posts whose titles are of the form XmY, where X and Y are natural numbers, for example 18m324.
I'd like to replace m with p in all post titles and slugs, while keeping X and Y ...
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Create “blank” admin page without having admin-bar/admin-menu for faster load
I'd like to create a page in the WP Admin backend that is just "white", e.g. without the administration menu or the admin bar.
I am NOT looking to create an admin page without adding it to the menu; ...
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Bulk activate a theme on multisite
I have a multisite and a new theme that needs to be activated across all subsites. I found an answer by fuxia from 2012 and would like to know (1)
if there have been changes in WordPress since that ...
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how to bulk add one line in the first paragraph of all posts
I want to add a sentence at the beginning of all posts of content directly into the post_content WordPress database. How do I? Either through the function.php or the MySQL command.
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How to bulk-untag multiple posts?
I have multiple batches of posts that are wrongly tagged with some terms, they need those terms to be removed.
Specifically, I have...
Custom post type: "article"
Custom taxonomy: "company" (...
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Custom Bulk Actions handler not firing
I'm pretty new to Wordpress and PHP and am trying to add a custom field to a bulk edit list for a custom post. I've followed the following blog post but my handle_bulk_actions callback is not firing:
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How to bulk Edit Dates in Media Library?
I can't seem to find this option, but is there a way to bulk edit the dates of media items? I'm trying to go through my media and clean it up and I'd like to batch edit the dates of images (they'd be ...
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Bulk-Update Custom Posts
I have the following code in my functions.php file that I'm using to create a custom meta_key called 'spec_wp' (which is based on the value of an ACF repeater):
add_filter('acf/save_post', '...
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How to set posts to draft in bulk based on the content of the post
I have thousands of offline links in my posts, and I'd like to set them all to draft. I know the links are in the format example.com/fileX. So I needed a SQL query to search the post content and ...
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How to assign posts without any category to the default category
Due to a massive import of posts from another cms into wordpress I have ended with thousands of posts without any category.
I need to add all those posts to the default category. I've seen this ...
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Custom bulk page permissions
I don't know if I am phrasing this question right, but having a hard time finding an answer. What I want to do is open up my posts or pages dashboard and be able to bulk edit pages' permissions. So I ...
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How to get bulk actions handler to display simple “Hello World”?
I’m learning how to make plugins and I’m running into some difficulty. I’m trying to modify the bulk actions dropdown under the post and pages parts of admin. I managed to get the dropdown to display ...
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Bulk edit WP posts to update embeded images with new alt tags
I have a client site that has approx. 2000 posts, most with 2-3 images embedded. Recently we've gone through the media gallery and given all the images proper meta data, clean titles, descriptions, ...
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flip horizontal images in bulk
I'm using the WooCommerce plugin and I have a list of like 200+ products and I want to flip horizontally the images for every product.
If I will do this manually it will take me days probably to take ...
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Is there a way to expose additional fields to the Bulk Action > Edit functionality?
I would like to know if it's possible (using the existing WordPress core development features) to hook into the existing WP Bulk Action > Edit functionality, in order to expose additional fields to ...
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transition_post_status doesn't work with bulk updates
I have successfully setup an action that executes when a custom post type is moved from "pending" to "publish" status. Everything works as expected when you change the post status individually (press ...
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How to delete all posts with dead image urls?
I have Picture Blog with over 100k Images, All of these images are remotely hosted, and many of them contains dead links for images. I want to delete all posts that contains dead links for images, ...
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Send Bulk Email without them going to spam
I am trying to find a way so that I wont need to pay to MailChimp or any of these companies for my 6000+ users, I want to send them mails twice a month, so thats more than 12000 mails per month. Can I ...
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Perform a custom (bulk) action in media view
I wish to figure out how to add a custom action button in the media grid view ( upload.php screen) and how to perform a custom (bulk) action to the selected attachments, as shown in the screenshot ...
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URL Redirect and Bulk Actions in wp_list_table
I am using the Custom List Table Example plugin as a basis to create my own custom list table. Everything is great, except one thorny point.
When I am processing bulk actions via the ...
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How to assign an additional/extra/second user-role to multiple users (of a specific user-role)
I have 500 users with 50 of those users assigned to user-role XYZ. I'd like these 50 XYZ users to keep their current XYZ user-role but also be assigned another/additional/extra/second user-role ABC......
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Delete 100+ posts or media files from wordpress faster than default?
The pages are running pretty fast but deleting many (like 25) posts at the same time takes up to one minute.
Same thing on the media library - everything is pretty slow.
I disabled already all ...
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Remove bulk option row
How can I remove bulk actions section from post and page lists pages on wordpress
I tried with following code in functions.php as suggested on another thread but it does nothing
add_action( '...
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WP-CLI Bulk delete posts from specific category
I would like to know how to bulk delete posts from a specific category using the WP-CLI, any tip?
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How to edit multiple post with Custom fields
I created a custom field for my post. All sounds good except for the fact that when I try to edit multiple posts (in the same time) by selecting the multiple option in the post list, I only find some ...
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WP_LIST_TABLE bulk action
I created a class extend WP_List_Table and created method for bulk actions like this :
function get_bulk_actions()
{
$actions = array(
'synchronize' => 'Synchronize',
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bulk media crop for featured images
I want to select all the images which are used as "featured image" on woocommerce products and modify and crop the images to fit a specific height.
Does anyone know if there is a plugin available or ...
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How to bulk edit canonical url's in SQL?
I've been assigned to edit the canonical URL's (rel="canonical" found in the head)of about 600 posts on a client's site. Not all of the posts will use the same canonical url. Nor are these 301's or ...
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Bulk posts from DRAFT Section
So, i did create a website with 110k posts and i need to test some SEO features, so i did clone the same database and i did post them on 5 other domains.
The thing is i can't index them 110k posts at ...
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Bulk lock users without email address?
I'm cleaning-up my database, and for the sake of keeping SPAM down to a minimum I would like lock all of the wordpress user accounts that do not contain an e-mail address. Any ideas how to do this?
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How to bulk change user role to “No role for this site”
If I edit an individual user, the role dropdown menu has the option "— No role for this site —" (<option value="">— No role for this site —</option>):
However this option doesn't exist on ...
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Bulk delete users by role? SQL?
I need to bulk-delete a large number (4,321) of users, all of a particular role type (not an out-of-the-box role name).
I have tried several functions found online, and have tried the Bulk Delete (...
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cron job to auto delete posts of a specific post type older than x days
I want to delete all posts of a specific post type (in this case "vfb_entry") that are older than 60 days. The cron job should run once a day.
I have the following code but it's not working if I ...
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`bulk_edit_custom_box` mess the input fields
I'm trying to create a bulk-edit plugin. Here is how Wordpress builk edit form looks by default:
Than I add the following code:
add_action( 'bulk_edit_custom_box', 'my_bulk_edit_custom_box', 10, 2 );...
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Delete All Product Images in phpmyadmin
I've just inherited a site that's being migrated to a new host, and I'm attempting to tidy up the database during the process.
The WooCommerce site had roughly 10,000 products resulting in somewhere ...
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How do i change page template in bulk?
Googled for a long time, but did not find any solution. The case is - I have 950 pages I'd like to switch to other template. If i do it manually - it will take some time.
If I do it via admin panel - ...
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New users not showing up in Post -> Edit
Background: A client has used first and last names as the user names, and we are trying to replace the old users with new users with more secure user names. We need to assign the posts for the old ...
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set_post_format called after wp_update_post when using bulk edit?
EDIT: See comments below. changing the question to reflect this new info
From what I understand from the codex, save_post is meant to always fire after the post is saved (and when creating a new post)...
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How can I hook into existing WordPress Bulk actions?
I am creating a plugin which syncs both standard WP data and custom fields within a custom meta box on post edit pages, to an external resource using SQL queries. However my functions are currently ...
