{"id":29554,"date":"2024-07-01T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/?p=29554"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:50:01","slug":"inline-edit-wordpress-posts-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/blog\/inline-edit-wordpress-posts-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Inline edit WordPress posts, page, and custom post types"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inline edit WordPress is a quick and seamless way to make changes on every field of WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types. This is especially useful for content writers, marketers, designers, and site owners. The main advantage is tracking the changes in a table and observing how the value is edited exactly. Moreover, any changes can be made with one click which makes the editing process very fast and easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, we want to review two methods for inline editing in WordPress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. WordPress inline editor<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. WordPress posts bulk editing plugin<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Let\u2019s take a closer look at both methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What is the inline edit?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Inline editing WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types is a method allowing site managers or bloggers to update the data directly from the WordPress list. In this method, posts or pages are listed in a table with their features and the user can change any visible field by clicking on each column of the table. The ability to add or update data without opening each post or page makes this method popular among web managers. They can see how data is updated directly on-screen without going to a new page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    How to inline edit WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    To inline edit WordPress posts, page,s and custom post types, you can either use the WordPress inline editor which is a quick way but is not flexible enough or you can install a third-party plugin with more useful options for inline editing in WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the following, we first review using the default WordPress inline editor, and then we will introduce the WordPress posts bulk editing plugin to make the process of inline editing more convenient for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How to inline edit with the default WordPress inline editor? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Default WordPress inline editor supports some post and page fields for quick editing which is a great solution when you have a few posts, page, and custom post types on your website and you need to change some of the most popular fields quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Use quick editor for inline editing WordPress posts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    To use WordPress Quick Editor for inline editing posts, first, you need to go to the WordPress Dashboard Posts > All Posts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    On this page, you will see a list of all WordPress posts in a table with some filtering options on the top, including: <\/p>\n\n\n\n