El Dorado

This Wordpress plugin will come in handy for those using their Wordpress install less as a Blog, and more as a CMS (Content Management System). The Mass Edit Pages plugin allows you to edit the Page Parent (post_parent) and Menu Order (menu_order) of many pages, on a single page.

Thus, instead of clicking through each page (page after page after page) to change their order or parentage, you can get at all of the pages from one simple interface.

Wow. This is a really nice plugin. I have just changed a few things so that it will show up in the language chosen for your WordPress blog. Where do I submit my changes?

Thanks, Jan. You can just post them up here, or you can email me if you like.

My email is: info@almosteffortless.com

nice plugin!

Thanks a lot! I've been a long time waiting for something like this.

Jan wrote:

Wow. This is a really nice plugin. I have just changed a few things so that it will show up in the language chosen for your WordPress blog. Where do I submit my changes?

TIA

Stefano

You can also use the "German" version, which has been fixed up by Jan to work with localization correctly. You don't have to use the German language files. I'll update the plugin soon so that it will work with localization. If you translate the plugin on your own, please let me know and I'll post it.

http://www.almosteffortless.com/wordpress/mass-...

I know WordPress 2.1 is just in alpha right now, but there are several features I need in 2.1 to run a static website I'm using. Unfortunately, this excellent plugin breaks in WP 2.1 alpha. It loads, but none of the pages are listed. I don't know if it is too early to request that the plugin be fixed, since I suppose 2.1 could continue to change - but I thought I'd ask anyway.

I think I'd need a new version to get the plugin working in 2.1 - the problem is likely that Wordpress is going to use a new, separate table for pages instead of combining them with the posts table (from what I gather). I'll put it on my to-do list to make the plugin work for 2.1 (it'll basically be a whole new plugin), but there are a couple things ahead of it in line right now.

Thanks for the explanation. I look forward to the new plugin when its ready! 2.1 offers some great features for static web sites - like the ability to specify a home page other than your blog.

There's no doubt I'll get all of my plugins working on 2.1 - it's just a matter of time. I'll update this thread and my blog when I've got something ready.

Hi there, I also love this plugin - functions like these should become standard for the next versions of WordPress

:-)

A few days ago I made an upgrade to WP 2.1, so I changed some lines of code to get Mass Edit Pages working on my blog. There were two things that needed to be changed.

1)

WP 2.1 decides whether a post is taken as a page or a post by "post_type" and not by "post_status" any more. So have a look at line 70:

$pages = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'static' ORDER BY menu_order");

$pages = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'page' ORDER BY menu_order");

2)

If caching is active, you can change your page order, the Mass Edit Pages menu will display your changes - but you won't see any effect on your blog. (I haven't tested yet, but I'm afraid, it might be the same with earlier versions of WordPress, too)

Anyway - WordPress must be told, that the cache for pages has to be cleared, when changes in page order are applied. The lines 42-48:

while ($i < $ii) :

		$ID = $_POST[ID][$i];

		$post_parent = $_POST[post_parent][$i];

		$menu_order = $_POST[menu_order][$i];

		$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET post_parent='$post_parent', menu_order='$menu_order' WHERE ID=$ID");

	$i++;

endwhile;

while ($i < $ii) :

		$ID = $_POST[ID][$i];

		$post_parent = $_POST[post_parent][$i];

		$menu_order = $_POST[menu_order][$i];

		$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET post_parent='$post_parent', menu_order='$menu_order' WHERE ID=$ID");

		clean_page_cache($ID); // else you won't see any effect, if caching is active!

	$i++;

endwhile;

Please excuse my bad English, if you're German spoken, you might better understand my explanation written here

Greetz,

Gunnar

I'm sorry - the plugin still does not work if you're doing changes in the post_parent-field.

The pages appear in the correct new order in every admin menu and via wp_list_pages - but they can't be reached. 404-Error. So WP2.1 seems to update edited pages somewhat other ...

:-(

I hope that I did not caus any trouble to anyone who had tried my version.

Gunnar Tillmann also seems to have done some work on this front as well. I'm sorry for not updating the plugin already, but it's been difficult for me to get at a computer since I'm traveling right now. Plus, I haven't upgraded to 2.1 yet :) It looks like it isn't too hard, though, to get things working in 2.1 - thanks to everyone who's sent me tips so far.

http://www.gunnart.de/tipps-und-tricks/mass-edi...

Now it works! Just some letters of code were missing.

Apply the changes written in my posting before, and add

wp_update_post($ID);

clean_page_cache($ID);

Thanks Trevor for this great plugin, and thanks pufaxx for the help...

I have one question:

The "mass edit pages" tab shows only if I'm ADMIN user, how can I do to make it visible also for EDITOR users?

greetings from Argentina

I'd guess it could be a little complicated to make it work for admins with lower admin-rights ... the plugin must decide page-by-page whether the current user has the right to edit the listed page or not ...

I'm afraid this is something for a long night and lots of coffee.

:-)

This plugin shows nothing for WP 2.3.3. I installed, clicked on "Manage" > "Mass Page Edit" but none of my pages show up.

I haven't tested it with 2.x at all - I think they made some changes to the WP architecture that are incompatible. Sorry, but I don't use this plugin on 2.x, so I'm not updating it :(

hi,
is there an update for this in wp2.5? also, one for mass edit posts would be fantastic... any idea where i can find it? thanks a lot!

I think the one for 2.3 still works for 2.5: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mass-edit-p...