{"id":818,"date":"2021-06-12T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/?p=818"},"modified":"2025-04-07T06:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:21:03","slug":"inline-edit-posts-in-wordpress-bulk-post-editing-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/inline-edit-posts-in-wordpress-bulk-post-editing-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to inline edit posts in WordPress bulk post editing plugin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inline edit in WordPress bulk posts editing plugin<\/a> is a great method to change multi features of the posts in the table with a few clicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see how easy is inline editing of posts in our plugin, let’s add all columns to our post table and try to edit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add columns<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To add all columns, we opened \u201cColumn Profile<\/strong>\u201d in the main page and marked \u201cselect all<\/strong>” at the top of the page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"Add$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
After clicking on \u201cApply To Table<\/strong>\u201d, we had access to all columns in the table to start inline editing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inline editing by using text box<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
You can use textbox to inline edit below columns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Post titles <\/li>\n\n\n\n
slug<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Post password <\/li>\n\n\n\n
Post URL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
To inline edit the text box columns, you just need to click on the box and start typing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, as you can see below, we tried to inline edit title of the first post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"inline$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Inline edit post feature image<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To inline edit some columns such as thumbnail and change the post images, a pop up will appear after clicking on the column. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this new page, you have access to extra options for editing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"inline$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
For example, we tried to choose another image for the first post in our table, by clicking on edit icon of the pop up page as shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"choose$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Finally you need to click on \u201cApply Changes<\/strong>\u201d to set the new featured image of the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inline editing by using content box<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Using content box is another option provided in the WordPress but post editing plugin to enable you editing the content of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Description <\/li>\n\n\n\n
Short description <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
By clicking on edit icon in the post table as shown below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"Inline$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
A new popup will appear including a text editor for typing new text and many tools such as bold, italic, link and etc. To help you manage the content of your posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You are also able to add media to your posts directly from this part as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"Content$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
After making any changes you need, the edited content post is displayed by clicking on \u201cApply Changes<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inline edit by using combo box<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Inline editing by combo box is available for below columns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Comment status<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Status<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Allow pingback<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Author<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Parent<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Sticky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Using a combo box is the easiest way for changing any features related to the post. You just need to open the list and choose one of the items to be assigned to that post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, we selected \u201cOpen” as the comment status of the first post in the table from the relevant combo box as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"Inline$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Inline editing of number box<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The columns that their content is a number can be edited in three ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Type a number in the box<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Use up \/ down button for increase \/ decrease the number<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Use calculator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
$\"inline$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
If you click on the calculator icon in the column a new popup will appear including two fields:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Operator box<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Textbox <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
In the operator box, 3 operators are available:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Plus+: <\/strong>the value you enter in the textbox will be added to the current value<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Minus-: <\/strong>the current value will be decrease by the value you enter in the text box <\/li>\n\n\n\n
Replace:<\/strong> the current value will be replaced by the value you enter in the text box <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n $\"use$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
For example, we selected \u2013 as our operator and typed \u201c2\u201d as the value in the textbox, so the menu order number changed by clicking on \u201cApply Changes<\/strong>\u201d as we expected:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Current value \u2013 typed value = 4 \u2013 2 = 2<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nInline edit columns by calendar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nAs you may guess, calendar is designed to help you inline edit the columns related to date which are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nDate published<\/li>\n\n\n\n GMT date published<\/li>\n\n\n\nDate modified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nChanging the date is so easy in our plugin table by using the calendar designed in those columns. As soon as you click on one of the date columns as we did for date published of the first post, the calendar will be displayed and you can pick a date from it to be assigned to that post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nInline editing by using select list<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIn some columns such as parent, we designed a select button. By clicking on this button, a new popup will appear and you can see a list of items in a combo box and you are allowed to just pick one of them to be assigned to that post feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, we tried to choose one of them from the parent list of the first post as you can see below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nInline editing by using a checklist<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nChecklist is a good way when you need to assign more than one item to a post feature. We provided categories, tags and taxonomies as a checklist to make choosing more than of them easy for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor example, to inline edit categories of the first post, we clicked on the related column to see the below checklist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThen we marked some of them to be assigned to that post and clicked on \u201cApply changes<\/strong>\u201d. As we expected, the categories were edited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you need to add a new category, it is also possible directly from the table. As you may notice in the above picture, there is an \u201cAdd New<\/strong>\u201d button which enables you to add a new category or tag to the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe discussed this feature in another tutorial <\/a>in detail, so you can refer to it if you need any more help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inline edit in WordPress bulk posts editing plugin is a great method to change multi features of the posts in the table with a few clicks. To see how easy is inline editing of posts in our plugin, let’s add all columns to our post table and try to edit them. Add columns To add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plugin-usage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/wordpress-bulk-post-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}