Stephanie Booth’s Batch Categories for Wordpress is an invaluable help, theoretically, for setting categories on lots of posts at once. However, it doesn’t work properly in Wordpress 1.5.2. I’ve updated it so that it does work properly, and you can download the new Batch Categories 0.92. Installation instructions are in comments at the top of the file.
All this with my consent, of course. Many thanks, hope you folks enjoy it!
Posted by Stephanie Booth on November 18th, 2005.
This only seems to be working for the most recent 10 posts and I can’t seem to find any means to progress through ny blog… Any ideas?
Posted by gabriel on November 20th, 2005.
gabriel: there are two ways. The first is to add num=50 or similar to the URL, which will show fifty posts rather than 10. It’s not possible to show the *next* fifty posts, though. It’s obviously possible to show all posts, by saying lim=100000 or similar, but the page takes a long time to render if you’ve got a lot of posts like I have.
The second is a step more involved. All my uncategorised posts are actually in category “Uncategorized”. So what I’m doing is using the dropdown at the top to pick category “Uncategorized”, which will show the next 10 uncategorised posts, and then going through them 10 at a time that way. (You could go through them 100 at a time if you like, as above).
Posted by sil on November 20th, 2005.
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Posted by m2h blogging » New Home on November 24th, 2005.
I’m sorry to say that it didn’t work for me :((
Always the blank page and nothing else…
Anybody got an idea?
Posted by marc on November 26th, 2005.
I found the problem: ‘batch-categories’ doesn’t work with the French language module! I’ll see what I can do.
Posted by marc on November 26th, 2005.
Marc: ooh. I’m afraid I’ve got no idea how to fix that, but I’m quite happy to roll in any patches you provide!
Posted by sil on November 26th, 2005.
Now I found the solution! It looked batch-categories didn’t work with any localisation except default the english-us (any other localisation you specify in config.php). The solution is to move the require_once(admin.php) and require_once(admin-header.php) BEFORE require_once(’../wp-includes/wp-l10n.php’) (move 2 lines in your patch).
And your patch works fine! Even in the French localisation of wp (and the german one to!)
Posted by marc on November 26th, 2005.
I’ve uploaded the new batch-categories.php file, and I’m still getting a blank screen. No admin screen. Did anyone come up with a solution for that? I’ve looked through the posts on the forum, but didn’t want to post until I tried this newer version. I’m using wp-1.5.2. Thanks. Feel free to leave comments at my site, or contact me, amanda@customerservant.com
Posted by Amanda Rush on December 18th, 2005.
Hey, thanks a lot.
Saved the code on the file and it works. :)
Posted by daisy duck on December 19th, 2005.
hmm, I’ve tried to use this with wordpress 2.0 and the posts simply don’t show up in the admin screen. the number of fields shown for the category is correct, but the ID, title and categories are not shown. If I click on ‘edit’ though, it takes me to the right post…
Posted by evane on January 13th, 2006.
WP2.0 support would be fantastic!
Posted by Ed on January 21st, 2006.
I’m on WP 2.0.1. I am having the same problems as evane…..my batch-categories.php screen does not display the titles of the posts, although I can view the specific post by clicking on edit - but using the edit button to change the category negates the whole point of the plugin.
Is there any fix I can apply to the batch-categories.php file to make the titles of the posts show up?
Posted by Jen on February 6th, 2006.
In terms of WP2.0, I’m not using it yet, so I haven’t updated the plugin. I’ll be happy to incorporate any patches, though.
Posted by sil on February 7th, 2006.
Another plea for WP 2.0 support.. I can’t find any other plugin that accomplishes the job
Posted by Monica on February 13th, 2006.
I looked long and hard at the code to figure out why the hidden elements displayed correctly and the displayed HTML did not in WP 2.0.1. I figured out that you don’t need a second ’start_wp();’ call in the Main Form’s ‘foreach’ loop. All you have to do is comment (or delete) that ’start_wp();’ and it works beautifully for WP 2.0.1. I hope Stephanie and Sil don’t me posting this. Feel free to contact me if not.
Posted by Myles on February 18th, 2006.
I may have spoke prematurely. All the batch changes work properly with the hack above, but the ‘update’ feature does not work due to an incorrect ID #. I’m going to see if I can figure out why.
Posted by Myles on February 18th, 2006.
Ok. I put in a really messy, but quite workable workaround to the $id issue. It really only involved a couple lines of code and doesn’t really get to the heart of what’s causing the problem, but it now functions as advertised in WP 2.0.1. You can get it at this link. Once again, I would like either Stephanie or Sil to contact me if there are any issues with me futzing with the code.
Posted by Myles on February 18th, 2006.
To all those concerned: I have no issue whatsoever with any modification to my code or modifications to modifications, as long as:
- my name and the names of other contributors remains somewhere
- you’re not making money off it
- you allow others to modify it further
(Remember the Creative Commons by-nc-sa license? that’s it.)
So have fun, people :-)
Posted by Stephanie Booth on February 20th, 2006.
“All the batch changes work properly with the hack above, but the ‘update’ feature does not work due to an incorrect ID #. I’m going to see if I can figure out why.”
I am actually having a similar problem with WordPress 1.5.2. I can make batch changes to the entire group, but pressing the “Update” button next to each post has no effect. There’s no error message or anything — it just reloads the page without making any changes.
Just for the heck of it, I tried Myles’s workaround, even though it was designed for a different version of WP… but it had no effect. Any ideas?
Posted by Brendan Loy on March 9th, 2006.
P.S. Please e-mail bloy[at]nd.edu instead of the above address if you want to respond by e-mail. My brendanloy.com addresses are being a bit wonky right now.
Posted by Brendan Loy on March 10th, 2006.
Hi guys -
Indeed, I got Myles’ version to work. Thanks dude. And thank you to Mme. Stephanie for her brilliant original work. Thank you so much.
But here’s the question, really: is this plugin under constant revision? Like, is there a project site other than the admirable climbtothestars.org? Can I suggest features? I mean, I love the plugin, but it’d be quite a bit more useful to me to be able to select entries by date. I’m unable to do that by searching…
Anyway, thank you again. You talented developer people make the world go ’round and give casual geeks like myself brilliant and life-simplifying things to play with.
Posted by b on March 24th, 2006.
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Posted by aoiro-blog » WordPress：カテゴリーの一括変換 batch-categories on March 25th, 2006.
I’m using WP2.0.1 but can’t get it to work. Also tried the modified code provided by Myles. I always get this errormessage to start with:
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: cachedfilereader in /etc/etc/etc/wp-includes/wp-l10n.php on line 67
When I delete this line I get
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: __() in /etc/etc/etc/weblog/wp-admin/batch-categories.php on line 24
Any idea why? Some use it with WP2.0.1 and no problems at all.
Posted by Jack on May 9th, 2006.
Hello…I am using WP 2.0 (whatever the neweset one is) and I have been following how to get this to work all the way from Stephanie’s site. :) I got through the blank screen problem and the posts not showing up problem. Now it will only update the categories on the very last post when I click the “update button”. So I can still only update one category at a time.
Posted by Jetgirl on May 14th, 2006.
(on WP 2.0) The script runs for me…but it doesn’t update the categories. I tried both the original script and the modifed one.
Posted by gmustuk on May 16th, 2006.
Is it compatible with WP 2.0?
Posted by andryonline on May 17th, 2006.
Yeah. Please let us know whether it works with WP 2, please.
Thanks a lot. :o)
Posted by Lautreamont on June 13th, 2006.
Had the same problem! Resolved it, but sorry to say I cannot understand how! Working on it.
Posted by Broadcaster on July 12th, 2006.
yess, I need support for 2.0 too!!
Posted by Andre on October 10th, 2006.