Bulk Move

Description

Bulk Move Plugin allows you to move posts in bulk from one category, tag or custom taxonomy to another.
This Plugin also allows you to disassociate posts from a certain category, tag or custom taxonomy.

If you looking for deleting posts or users in Bulk, instead of just moving them, then use Bulk Delete Plugin instead.

Features

The following modules are available in the Bulk Move plugin.

Move posts from one category to another

This module allows you to move posts from one category to another or disassociate posts from a specific category.

Move posts from one tag to another

This module allows you to move posts from one tag to another or disassociate posts from a specific tag.

Move posts from category to tag

This module allows you to move posts from one category to another tag.

Move posts by custom taxonomy

This module allows you to move posts from one custom taxonomy to another. This module supports custom post types as well.

Development

The development of the Plugin happens over at github. If you want to contribute to the Plugin, fork the project at github and send me a pull request.

If you are not familiar with either git or Github then refer to this guide to see how fork and send pull request.

If you are looking for ideas, then you can start with one of the following TODO items ??

TODO

• Bulk Move pages to posts
• Bulk Move users from one role to another

Support

• If you have found a bug/issue or have a feature request, then post them in github issues
• If you have a question about usage or need help to troubleshoot, then post in WordPress forums or leave a comment in Plugins’s home page
• If you like the Plugin, then kindly leave a review/feedback at WordPress repo page. This will help more people to discover the plugin.
• If anything else, then contact me in twitter.

Translation

• Brazilian Portuguese (Thanks Marcelo of Criacao de Sites em Ribeirao Preto)
• Turkish Portuguese (Thanks Bahadir Yildiz)
• Spanish (Thanks Brian Flores of InMotion Hosting)
• Bulgarian (Thanks Nikolay Nikolov of Skype Fan Blog)
• Hindi (Thanks Love Chandel)
• Lithuanian (Thanks Vincent G)

Readme Generator

This Readme file was generated using wp-readme, which generates readme files for WordPress Plugins.

Screenshots

Installation

The simplest way to install the plugin is to use the built-in automatic plugin installer. Go to plugins -> Add New and then enter the name of the plugin to automatically install it.

If for some reason the above method doesn’t work then you can download the plugin as a zip file, extract it and then use your favorite FTP client and then upload the contents of the zip file to the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.

FAQ

Instead of moving posts to another category, tag or taxonomy can I just disassociate the post from a category, tag or custom taxonomy?

Yes, it’s possible to just disassociate the post from a category, tag or custom taxonomy. Just choose Remove Category/Tag/Term option in the right side dropdown.

Can I move posts from a category to tag?

Yes. Use the ‘Bulk Move Category by Tag’ module to move posts from a category to a tag.

Does Bulk Move supports custom taxonomies?

Yes. Use the ‘Bulk Move Custom Taxonomies’ module.

Reviews

Fantastic, you saved me!

ukrainaevents April 12, 2022

It’s fantastic, I had to move 30,000 records among 300 categories …. You saved me, God bless you

Works great with WP 5.8.3

alexio January 20, 2022

Easy, done the category transfer without any problems.

Highly Recommendable

Günter Duba December 9, 2021

THank you for this! I cleaned up my Kategories in 5 Minutes and everything works and nothing is lost.

Don’t work with latest version

onedaythreeautumns September 28, 2021

Even if I check the ‘keep all remaining tags’ it removes them. The same goes for categories. It doesn’t move it, rather removes one tag to another…

Not working

jdev April 9, 2020

Post is still removed from the category its in…

Quick and Easy Category Transfer

wordtheory November 5, 2019

After starting and running a blog for 2 years, we realized we had too many categories. We went from 20+ categories down to 5. Rather than editing hundreds of posts one by one, this plugin allowed us to quickly and easily transfer our old categories to our new categories. Thank you for this plugin – it was huge time saver and a real gift!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

v1.3 (2014-08-17) (Dev time: 0.5 hours)

• Tweak: Fixed a warning in meta box implementation

v1.2.1 (2014-06-05) (Dev time: 0.5 hours)

• Tweak: Indent sub categories in the category dropdown. (Issue #10)

v1.2 (2014-04-21) (Dev time: 6 hours)

• Add: Add the ability to specify the PHP script timeout. Thanks https://github.com/grantnorwood
• Add: Add uninstall.php file to remove option when plugin is removed. Thanks https://github.com/grantnorwood
• Fix: Clean whitespace in HTML attributes. Thanks https://github.com/grantnorwood
• Add: Add the ability to move categories by tag. Thanks https://github.com/grantnorwood
• Tweak: Change the capability to edit_others_posts. (issue #7)
• Tweak: Make Bulk_Move class as a singleton
• Add: Add WordPress version to debug information. (issue #6)

v1.1.1 (2014-02-12) (Dev time: 0.5 hours)

• Add: Add German translation
• Fix: Fix link to Bulk Delete plugin

v1.1 (2013-12-19) (Dev time: 3 hours)

• Fix: Change the content displayed in sidebar
• Tweak: Remove screen_icon which is not used in WordPress 3.8
• New: Add support moving posts by tags

v1.0 (2013-10-13) (Dev time: 3 hours)

• Revamped GUI

v0.9 (2012-07-10) (Dev time: 0.5 hour)

• Added Hindi translations
• Added Lithuanian translations

v0.8 (2012-01-13)

• Added Bulgarian translations

v0.7 (2011-12-16)

• Removed spaces from first line which was starting the output

v0.6 (2011-11-19)

• Added Spanish translation

v0.5 (2011-08-25)

• Fixed a warning and added Turkish translation

v0.4 (2011-02-08)

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation

v0.3 (2010-11-28)

• Fixes for blank screen issue. Thanks Carlos

v0.2 (2009-05-08)

• Second version

v0.1 (2009-02-04)

• First version