Bulk Assign Categories to Multiple Posts
October 14th, 2008
Here’s a cool new wordpress plugin that allows you to assign one or more categories to multiple posts in a single shot, with or without preserving existing categories.
This plugin will be very useful when you are migrating to your own wordpress blog, hosted on your domain. The default wordpress functionality is that, you can assign new categories to posts only by editing each post and changing the category assigned to it. So, if you have a large number of posts, then it will be a nightmare.
Enter this plugin.
With this plugin, assigning multiple categories to one or more posts is a breeze. Pop the plugin’s PHP file to your wordpress plugin directory, activate it and click on “Assign Categories” under the Manage menu. The page will show the list of available categories, followed by the available blog posts. You can select the categories, select the required posts and then click on “Assign Categories” at the bottom of the page. Now, all your posts will be assigned the new categories.
The plugin is licensed under GPL v2 (the same as wordpress).
Download the plugin, take it for a test drive and let me know.
October 19th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
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November 18th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Wow. From the time I googled “assign new category to multiple posts in WordPress” until I had completed the installation and new assignment of categories was fewer than five minutes. I’m impressed. You saved me at least an hour of work today. Thanks!
November 18th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
@Barbara: Thanks a lot for downloading the plugin and trying it out. Glad to hear that its been of use.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 am
Hi Aswin, the plugin is great. It saved me a lot of time. There is one thing i want to suggest you. The plugin displays 20 posts at one time and while moving between different pages , the posts which i have selected in previous page gets de-selected. Maybe this is something you can work on.
Thanks again for this wonderful plugin
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 am
@Madhur: Thanks a lot for trying out the plugin. I didn’t give that feature mainly to eliminate confusion that users may have when they are selecting posts in multiple pages. Yep, your’s is a valid suggestion and it will be considered for the next iteration.
December 16th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
This plugin is not useful without this simple options:
– Ability to filter all posts by categories
– Ability to add/remove just one category without change others
Please, notify me if you put this features in next version.
December 16th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
@Danny: Thanks a lot for trying out this plugin. I will add the “filter by category” soon, when time permits.
Regarding “add/remove just one category without change others”, this feature is already available. After installing the plugin, you need to select “Preserve existing categories for selected posts”.
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January 15th, 2009 at 1:51 am
I have tested this plugin on a few posts and it seems to work great.
I have a blog that has a huge number of categories that have become difficult to manage.
It would be great of the search feature had advanced features so that you could search only categories intead of categories and text. That way you could easily find all post in a category and bulk change the category name.
Keep up the great work on a very useful plugin!
Alan F.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Hello Alan, thanks a lot for dropping by and testing my plugin. Quite a few people have requested this feature and am implementing it. It will be out in a few days & announced here.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:03 am
I can’t install the pluggin. I need to assign 1 category to a ton of old posts. can someone email me what i am doing wrong? Using on the latest version of WP
January 31st, 2009 at 3:50 am
a buddy got it to work! This pluggin saved me hours if not months of work- 698 posts assigned categories in less then 30 mins! Thanks a ton
January 31st, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Jonah, thanks a lot for trying out the plugin. May I know why you couldn’t assign categories during the first time? What problem did you face? Let me know so that it can be rectified in the next release.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Hello.
I’ve installed the plugin fine….but i cant seem to find the “manage” section?
Where do i actually use this plugin?
March 20th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Brendan, may I know which version of wordpress you are using? If it is wordpress 2.7, you can find “Assign Categories” under the “Tools” menu.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
ah haaa. yes indeed! Thanks so much!
March 20th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
and yes…definitely searching and updating whole categories would be a huge help.
Little tricky to update 1,000 entries without that.
November 25th, 2010 at 4:24 am
hi – just wondering if this plugin is compatible with WordPress 3.0.1 as I cannot seem to find any similar plugin and am looking for this functionality exactly.
Thanks!
November 26th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
It is compatible, Harlie.
April 11th, 2011 at 3:52 am
Still works with 3.1 from what I can tell. Thanks Aswin! It’d be great if it were on the WordPress Plugin listings though, as I almost didn’t find it. =)
April 11th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Thanks Alan 🙂 . Am adding it there right away.
May 9th, 2011 at 10:16 am
Great plugin. It really helped me 🙂
January 25th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Aswin. Truly, thanks SO much. This was written long ago, but in 2012, with version 3.3.1 it still works. You should put this on the WordPress repository so more people can benefit from this VERY VERY USEFUL plugin. Many thanks for some fantastic work!
September 5th, 2012 at 12:02 am
Thank you so much! You seriously saved me an entire day of work! Really appreciate it!