Comments on: How to batch edit your posts in one shot?

By: Ayman

Ayman — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:29:28 +0000

Oh I guess the code didnt show up. I meant to say that it looks somewhat like this (i hope this works) [a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=XXXX"][img src="http://tablified.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/androidicon.png" alt="" title="Click to Download from Android Market" width="300" height="48" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4507" /][/a] replace the "[ or ]" with "".

By: Ayman

Ayman — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:27:08 +0000

I could use some help. This doesn’t seem to work for me. I get a 1064 error. Here’s what I am trying to do. In each post I have a link that looks somewhat like this:

The difference between each post is the XXXX. So what I wanted to do was replace the whole thing and make it look like this:

[app]XXXX[/app]

So what I did in the SQL was type:

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘’, ‘[/app]‘);

But unfortunately it didnt work. This is the error I got:

#1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘href="https://market.android.com/details?id=â€™, â€˜[app]â€˜)’ at line 1

Not really sure what that means. Can anyone help me out?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:19:04 +0000

Let it be noted that if you try this: UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, '"' , ''); You will get an SQL error. In my case getting rid of the helped. Hope this helps someone out there.

By: Ankur

Ankur — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:22:39 +0000

@Notebook HP aka Hey – Seems you had a bad day. We approve comments in a batch, sometimes it may take 7-10 days before you will see your comment published.

By: Hey

Hey — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:07:40 +0000

Didnt aprove my comment about mysql adm!
Go fuck ur self and ur blog!

By: Notebook HP

Notebook HP — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:13:02 +0000

What about editing “bulk” post titles via phpAdmin?
Thing it’s blog was written in PT-br , now to make all post_name (URL) us english I need to change every post name via wp-admin. But there are 2.500 posts! So I got how to export just post_name table and translated them via Systran. But how do I upload it? First I need to “clean” any data from post_name table them how to import it? via txt? File must be equal structure from which one I export it?
Thanks

By: Jason Maclintok

Jason Maclintok — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:56:53 +0000

Hey Ankur, I am facing the same issue as stated by Mahesh. I has tried to use the trick you suggested but can’t get it working. Can you guide me through this?

By: Ankur

Ankur — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:44:19 +0000

You should be able to do that by checking for the word “DOWNLOAD” at the end of post. I would suggest you to always have a backup in place. Do a SELECT first, once you are satisfied then only do an UPDATE

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 04:51:09 +0000

Good trick. But, what if I want some some text to be removed from all the posts?
Like, I have some posts, at the end of the each post, there is a word DOWNLOAD. I want that word to be removed from all the posts. How can I do this?