Quick Edit!

 

If you just want to change something small in a WordPress Page or Post you don’t always need to load up the whole editor, you can use the Quick Edit feature! You can even use it to edit multiple posts at once! I’ll show you how.

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Hey folks! Welcome to another HeroPress Tip of the Week. This week I’m going to show you how to quick edit your posts, which is different from normal editing. Let me show you what I mean. This is my posts page, and you’ll note that there’s an “Edit” link here and a “Quick Edit”. “Edit” does exactly what you’d think. It loads up this page so that I can edit it. 

However “Quick Edit” just opens this little thing up. And there are some things that I can edit in this post and other things that I can’t. For example, I could change the title or the slug, I could change the release date, I could set it to be password protected or private. I can remove categories, and I can choose some that are already existing. But I can’t create new categories like you can inside a post. 

But for tags, it’s just a text field and they’re comma-separated, so you can create new ones here. I can turn off comments for this post and I can turn off pings and you can set the status. So setting it to “draft” would essentially unpublish it. And then I can make this post sticky. 

Now, notable things that are missing are the featured image—you can’t mess with that—and the excerpt, and a whole host of other things like Yoast or anything else you might have added on. Then when you’re ready, you simply click “Update”. 

But there’s one more cool thing I can show you. If you click this and select multiples, then go to “Edit” and “Apply”, now we’re editing multiple posts. Now, again, this is even more restricted. 

You remember that good night moon is in space travel. But space travel is not selected here. So if I leave it unselected it’s not going to mess with this. But if I check it, then it’s going to add it to this one, etc. Now I can’t remove uncategorized from Hello World because it’s already unchecked. 

You can still add tags to all of them and you can set the author on all of them and change the comments status on all of them. “Post status” is really great because say you’ve got 10 posts you want to unpublish, you just check them all go into “Quick Edit” and set them all to “draft” and they are unpublished. Save for pings and sticky.

So let’s set them all to draft. There we are. Now they’re all draft. And then I can go back in and set the status to published. You’ll note that I can’t edit the date. It’s going to publish right now. And there they are, published.

So “Quick Edit” can save you quite a bit of time on certain things. There are other things that it just doesn’t work for. So check it out the next time you need to very quickly change a post. I hope you find this useful.