Title: Primary category bulk edit
Last modified: June 17, 2020

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# Primary category bulk edit

 *  Resolved [oliwkama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oliwkama/)
 * (@oliwkama)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/primary-category-bulk-edit/)
 * Hello, Is there a way to bulk edit primary category for posts without editing
   post by post? I need to to this for 800 posts, so I’m looking for some way to
   make it easier and quicker.

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 *  [Rumejan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onlyincebu/)
 * (@onlyincebu)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/primary-category-bulk-edit/#post-13001392)
 * Hello! Sorry to say it’s currently not possible to bulk edit categories using
   the Yoast SEO plugin. The bulk editor feature of the plugin only allows you to
   quickly change titles and descriptions of your posts and pages without editing
   each of them. You’ll need a different plugin for that.
 *  Thread Starter [oliwkama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oliwkama/)
 * (@oliwkama)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/primary-category-bulk-edit/#post-13002761)
 * Well, I was hoping that at least it may be considered in future as feature request.
   I am talking about Yoast taxonomy _yoast_wpseo_primary_category. I was trying
   to use Admin Columns plugin, but it only displays value without editing. Could
   you please suggest any other plugin that could do this?
 *  [Jeroen Rotty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroenrotty/)
 * (@jeroenrotty)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/primary-category-bulk-edit/#post-13003345)
 * Hi [@oliwkama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oliwkama/),
 * Thank you for your feedback and reply. Yes, we are on the same page, such a feature
   would be great. A feature request for this specific feature is already filed 
   in our team but has not seen any process at this time. Having said this, we don’t
   know if and when it will be picked up.
 * Unfortunately, we don’t know any plugin that can make this change and do the 
   necessary changes after the primary_category has been altered in your database.
 *  [Jeroen Rotty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroenrotty/)
 * (@jeroenrotty)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/primary-category-bulk-edit/#post-13034547)
 * Hi [@oliwkama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oliwkama/),
 * We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you
   require any further assistance please create a new forum topic. Thank you!

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/primary-category-bulk-edit/#post-13034547)
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