Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)

Try using the select box to choose a category — that will show you all the posts in that category. Then you can use the “Add category” drop-down to put them in the parent category, and then the “Remove category” (same drop-down) to remove them from their old child category.

Does this help?

Stumbled across your site from google, really would like easy category editing - but I can’t get it to work! — I’m getting Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /../wordpress/wp-admin/batch-categories.php on line 24
. I’ve tried on my home server and my internet server but it’s exactly the same on both! any ideas?

Cheers!

• pj

I just used this great plugin to recat 827 posts.

Reset all posts to default.
Asked plugin to display the default (this was a mistake on my part asking it to do so much work), and then recat’d the posts in several huge chunks.
No crashes, no oddness, worked wonderfully - great stuff !

Thank you !

I think I may have found a bug in Batch Categories. Although, being careful, I think I can avoid it in the future…

I was cleaning up some categories I had duplicated. I just finished batch changing all the posts. I went into the Categories screen, went to the sub-category to be removed. The categories I was working on looked something like this:
WWW
- Spamming
- - Referral
- - Comment

All three categories had posts that I moved to a different category that better fit. I had just finished removing the ‘Spamming’ category from posts that had them when I went to delete the Spamming category.

When I deleted the ‘Spamming’ category, the admin pages died. The site was still OK, but I got errors when trying to access WP’s Admin pages. It was reporting a php error saying something about the fact that some headers were attempting to be loaded when index.php had already loaded them or something like that. It mentioned batch-access.php, so I deleted that file from the plugins folder and tried reloading the admin pages.

I was able to reload the pages at that point. Whew! I uploaded the batch-access.php file and re-activated the plugin. Everything still works.

The two sub-categories that were under ‘Spamming’ were now sub-categories of ‘WWW’. So I deleted them without incident.

I am assuming that by attempting to delete a sub-category that had sub-categories of its own was not a good thing.

I’m still going to use this plugin often, I just know I’ll need to move things around again. I’ll just stay away from deleting the category I had just batch moved if it has sub-categories of it’s own.

Just thought you might want to know in case you can reproduce it.

I’m working with v1.5 and I’ve been trying for days to get this to work and it won’t even be recognized by the plugin admin screen. It’s there, there are no spaces where they shouldn’t be, but I can’t get it to work. It worked perfectly in 1.2.

Thanks for the specifics. The other batch-categories plugin I used embedded itself right into the EDIT/MANAGE window of the WordPress Admin. This had me a little confused.

It works like a charm with 1.5 with no trauma, so far….

I’ll make a link from the manage window, but it would be nice it you could make it like a plugin so it would automatically make a link appear. Wonderful!

I figured out the first problem (num=N), it was browser related. The second problem the “Update” button, still doesn’t work. Any pointers?

Unfortunately, this does not work with WP1.5. It conflicts with the admin.php script, lines 6-9. I hope you’re able to resolve the problems, because this looks like a great and much needed utility.

FYI, Post Levels v0.1 and Batch Categories 0.91 are not compatible when both installed and activated in WordPress v1.5 (final). I installed, activated and tested Post Levels first, and everything was fine. I installed Batch Categories next, and upon activation I got several PHP errors at the top of the Manage Plugins page itself, as well as every other page (have removed full path info from errors):

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.[…]/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/.[…]/wp-admin/admin.php on line 6

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.[…]/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/.[…]/wp-admin/admin.php on line 7

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.[…]/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/.[…]/wp-admin/admin.php on line 8

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.[…]/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/.[…]/wp-admin/admin.php on line 9

Errors stopped as soon as I deactivated Batch Categories and refreshed the page.

Would be extremely nice if you and the Post Levels author could collaborate on a fix so both plugins will co-exist on one WP installation. Thanks!

As I’ve told you, and will again and again, I adore this wonderful plugin. I just installed the new “final” Strayhorn v1.5 and now batch-categories won’t work for nothing. I’ve played around with bits and pieces but all I get is a blank screen. No error messages to help me narrow anything down.

With everyone switching to 1.5 now (well, billions of folks at least - hee hee), this is too valuable a tool to let slide off the map. I think it should be part of the WordPress package - what a contribution!

I really need this to work. It was working up until the new CVS….not happy.

To fix the blank page issue in 1.5, at the top of batch-categories.php, right above the require line for admin-header.php, add another for admin.php, like so:

require_once(’admin.php’);
require_once(’admin-header.php’);

That should be all you need.

-Kaf

I had quick look at trying to get this to work with mu WordPress within the last month:
http://mu.wordpress.org/

Has anyone had any success?

Cheers Mark

Stephanie, when you get around to updating Batch Categories let me know, as I have a reconfigured version that works as a plugin. Still has the separate script (which needs some 1.5 remodeling), but your batch-access now incorporates the admin page automatically, including batch-categories.php from a plugins subdirectory.

Firstly, I must once I got your plugin working, it was a boon.

I have written a tutorial on the changes that need to be made to get it working in 1.5.1, and also appear on the admin menu.

I also have hosted the changed files for download. If you have any objections to it, let me know and I will remove it.

I also have a couple of ideas for improving the work flow
Check my post at http://shvelmur.com/wpress/?p=54

Hi,
I had this error, too
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started […]

The files had trailing spaces at the end, remove them and it’ll work.
ciao

Grendel

OK so I actually have 2 blogs into the same database with different URLs. There is the one in my link there and

http://unfilterednewsnetwork.com/North_South_Blog/

Because the wordpress blogs are installed in a subfolder, I think I am having some weird errors. What code do I need to fix to get this to work? Here are the errors:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 11

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 12

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 13

When I click on the plugin URI per instructions, I get this:
Warning: main(North_South_Blog/wp-admin/admin-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-admin/batch-categories.php on line 16

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘North_South_Blog/wp-admin/admin-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/unfilter/public_html/North_South_Blog/wp-admin/batch-categories.php on line 16

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/fansubto/public_html/nicoyan/wp-content/plugins/batch-access.php:11) in /home/fansubto/public_html/nicoyan/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10

i get that error when activating the theme …

Yes, this script doesn’t work at all. I had Nico’s problem, and now I’ve got chrish’s problem. Can you please fix this, Steph?

I’ve just added a little hack to this wonderful admin panel (which unfortunatly generates lots of warning on WP 1.5.2

Add this code (copied from wp-admin/edit.php)

    get_results("SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date) AS yyear, MONTH(post_date) AS mmonth FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY post_date DESC");
        foreach ($arc_result as $arc_row) {
            $arc_year  = $arc_row->yyear;
            $arc_month = $arc_row->mmonth;

            if( isset($_GET['m']) && $arc_year . zeroise($arc_month, 2) == (int) $_GET['m'] )
                $default = 'selected="selected"';
            else
                $default = null;

            echo "';
            echo $month[zeroise($arc_month, 2)] . " $arc_year";
            echo "\n";
        }
    ?>

        "  /> 

Just after the category selector, and you’ll have a month selector for your batch moves.
It works really smooth. Thanks a lot Stephanie !

I would also like to encourage you to upgrade this plugin for wordpress 2.0. I’ve enjoyed using it.

I would love it if there was 2.0 support for this

ups, i just now read your other post .. please ignore my other comment.

I also posted this over at as days pass by…

“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?

Please, I need the compatible version with WP 2.0

Just another voice in favor of mass category management for WP 2.0

Ahh…great plugin. I would love to use it but I’m currently on Wordpress 2.0. Hope you’re working on a compatible version!

Very nice functionality (exactly what I was looking for)!
I’ve changed the plugin a bit so it would work with WP 2.0, if you want I can send you the code.

Please Baastian, publish the hack! Thanks

This plugin is exactly what I have been looking for. But looks like it doesn’t work in WP2. Any plans of making it work in WP2 in the near future?

Thanks!

I’ll join the crowd in asking for a version of your plugin that works in Wrodpress 2.

Thanks!

Hi,

I have installed the plugin on a 2.0.5 WP install.

When I click the link nothing happens? I get a blank white screen which states “Done” in the browser status bar.

I uploaded the files as per the instructions. Possibly not compatible with 2.0.5?

Thanks for the previous works. Looking for upgrades. I’m using wordpress 2.3.