Title: Enhanced bulk actions
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Enhanced bulk actions

 *  [Zorgatos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zorgatos/)
 * (@zorgatos)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enhanced-bulk-actions/)
 * First off, this plugin is great. Easy to use and efficient.
    Only problem I’ve
   encountered so far is to perform bulk actions. If I add, for example, 100 images
   to the catalogue via FTP they are all uncategorized by default. With the current
   controls, I’d have to edit each individual item to add it to a specific category.
   Doing this for 1 or 2 (or 10) is fine but, for 100s, it’s mind-numbingly boring.
   It could be that this feature already exists and I haven’t figured it out so 
   far. If that’s the case… my apologies. But if not then please consider adding
   in a future revision. Other nice to haves would be quick item renaming, date 
   and drag and drop reordering. Keep up the good work!

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 *  Plugin Author [macguru2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macguru2000/)
 * (@macguru2000)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enhanced-bulk-actions/#post-2058464)
 * Zorgatos,
 * Thank you so much for your compliments, I don’t have a lot of time to spend describing
   all the planned features, just know that two bulk actions are in the works for
   CataBlog 1.2.6, edit category and regenerate images. I can’t think of any other
   fields right now that need to be bulk editable, maybe price.
 * Drag and drop reordering was available in 1.1 and 1.2 of CataBlog, and everyone
   complained that it was to hard to use with large libraries, so I removed it and
   plan on implementing some kind of gallery or collection system that will let 
   people drag and drop reorder within each gallery. I can get into the technical
   details about this later, but you may also read my blog posting about it at [http://catablog.illproductions.com/2011/04/ordering-multiple-categories/](http://catablog.illproductions.com/2011/04/ordering-multiple-categories/)
 * One thing to keep in mind with bulk edits, it can be very easy to create thousands
   of database queries in one page load. So these are features I need to design 
   well and test thoroughly before releasing. Again thanks for you interest in CataBlog
   and if you have a chance and haven’t already, please
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 *  Plugin Author [macguru2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macguru2000/)
 * (@macguru2000)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enhanced-bulk-actions/#post-2058465)
 * Also, you could use the CSV import feature, here would be the steps I would take.
 * 1. Upload your images via FTP
    2. Rescan your originals folder 3. Export a CSV
   version of your catalog 4. Edit the CSV, adding in all categories (separate categories
   with a vertical bar, | ) 5. Import the new CSV file with the replace all option
   checked. 6. Viola, done 🙂
 * Hope that helps you out until I get more bulk actions done, cheers!
 *  Plugin Author [macguru2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macguru2000/)
 * (@macguru2000)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enhanced-bulk-actions/#post-2058606)
 * A new version of CataBlog, 1.2.7 will be released very soon and one of the features
   is going to be bulk category edits. It might be a bit of an elementary implementation
   of it, but still should a least be a step in the right direction for your mind
   numbing concern…

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