Bulk Edit Listings

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  • November 16, 2018 at 3:59 pm #454623

    Robert Davenport
    Buyer
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    Hi,

    How can we select an entire page of our listings (from admin side) and edit them to place them in DRAFT mode? We have about 100 listings to do this for. Please explain.

    Thank you,
    Robert

    November 16, 2018 at 6:00 pm #454643

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    this is the only way:

    Export CSV
    Edit CSV
    Re-import edited CSV to update listings.

    Thanks

    November 16, 2018 at 7:31 pm #454662

    Robert Davenport
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    November 16, 2018 at 7:38 pm #454663

    Paolo
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    It will work to change the status, but only published listings can be claimed.

    Thank you

    November 16, 2018 at 9:24 pm #454678

    Robert Davenport
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    November 16, 2018 at 10:59 pm #454695

    Alex Rollin
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    GD has a built in function for export/import.

    You can find it in the menu at GD – Import & Export

    Here’s our doc about it: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-export/

    If you put them in the trash, I guess make sure you aren’t using some trash cleanup that would accidentally remove them.

    November 17, 2018 at 12:53 am #454716

    Robert Davenport
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    November 17, 2018 at 12:59 am #454719

    Guust
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    Are you sure you downloaded a CSV file from GD > Export + Import ?
    Export

    November 17, 2018 at 1:04 am #454722

    Robert Davenport
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    November 17, 2018 at 1:06 am #454724

    Robert Davenport
    Buyer
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    Ahhhh!!! I was using the import / export feature in GDF Options. Ok! Let me try this again.

    Thank you!

    November 17, 2018 at 1:15 am #454728

    Robert Davenport
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    November 17, 2018 at 3:12 pm #454798

    Alex Rollin
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    You want the post_status column. Set one of your listings to draft or whatever status you need and export again to see how to edit the sheet.

    November 17, 2018 at 7:49 pm #454832

    Robert Davenport
    Buyer
    Post count: 609

    Hi Alex,

    So I exported ALL 137 of the Place listings since we will put 100 of them in the DRAFT mode. I was able to successfully open the download in OfficeLibre according to the instructions shared in the link above.

    So I went thru the .csv spread sheet, found the Status column and have already changed the 100 out of 137 listings to DRAFT and saved the csv with a slightly different name from the original I exported.

    So my question is….at this point, can I just do an IMPORT of the saved csv that contains the updated listings? Or is there something else or some other way to update all of the listings on my website?

    Please explain.

    Thank you,
    Robert

    November 17, 2018 at 11:28 pm #454835

    Guust
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    You can just import that file, but take note of https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-export/#tips

    Check the following import option: Update listing if post with post_id already exists.

    Thanks

    November 19, 2018 at 8:41 am #454972

    Robert Davenport
    Buyer
    Post count: 609

    Thank you Guust!!! That worked out perfectly!

    Thank you,
    Robert

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