Night Dreaming (by Sudar)

I have recently released lot of updates to my Bulk Delete (which is a WordPress Plugin that allows you delete posts in bulk). The new updates allows the user to delete posts based on permalink in addition to deleting by tags or categories.

Like the previous updates, this feature was also requested by the users of the Plugin. So if you have any feedback or feature request, don’t hesitate to contact me, I will try to add them to the Plugin.

New features

The following are the new features that are supported by the Plugin

• Ability to delete posts by permalink. This features was written by Martin Capodici
• Major UI revamp. Let me know if you have any feedback about the new UI.
• Added debug information, which should help you to debug issues related to your server.
• Added roles and capabilities for menu.

Bug Fixes

The following are some of the bug fixes which have gone into the releases

• Fixed issues with translations
• Fixed a major issue in the way how dates were handled
• Fixed CSS issues in IE

Translations

The following are the different languages for which translations have been added. If you are willing to translate the Plugin in your language, then you can find the pot file inside the language’s folder.

• Turkish
• Spanish
• Italian
• Bulgarian
• Russian
• Lithuanian

Dev Time

All these releases combinedly took me about 11 hours of development time. From this release on I have started tracking the amount of time I am spending on each release of my WordPress Plugins. There is a separate blog post, which explains the reasons why I track my development time.

Download

You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

Try out the Plugin and if you have any comments or if you want to report any bugs, please leave a comment below.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter . If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter .

I have updated my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin, which lets you to delete posts in bulk. The new update adds the support to delete posts by custom taxonomy, in addition to deleting posts by tag and category.

Like the previous updates, this feature was also requested by the users of the Plugin. So if you have any feedback or feature request, don’t hesitate to contact me, I will try to add them to the Plugin.

Screenshot

Download

You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

If you have any comments or if you want to report any bugs, please leave a comment below.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

Just now released an update to my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin, which you can use to delete posts in bulk. This update adds support for deleting private posts.

All the private posts can be deleted in bulk in one go or they can be filtered based on categories or tags.

Like the previous updates, this feature was also requested by the users of the Plugin. So if you have any feedback or feature request, don’t hesitate to contact me, I will try to add them to the Plugin.

Screenshot

Download

You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

If you have any comments or if you want to report any bugs, please leave a comment below or contact me.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

It’s been quite some time since I released updates to my WordPress Plugins since I was quite busy recently with lot of stuff (including the android course). Anyways I found some free time today and was able to push some updates to my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin, which was overdue for quite some time. 🙂

Support for trash

WordPress 2.9 introduced the concept of trash, which allows you to move posts to trash (like Recycle bin in Windows or Trash in Mac) instead of deleting them directly.

I have added support for trash to my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin. Now you can choose whether you want to delete the posts directly or just move them to trash. The credit for this feature goes to David Wren, you contributed code for this functionality.

Batch Deletes

I have also enabled another option which will be quite handy when you want to delete tons of posts. The most popular complain I hear from users of my Plugin is that, the PHP script times out if there were more than 1000 posts.

One possible solution is to increase the timeout period in php.ini file. But changing php.ini values is quite difficult especially if you were on a shared host.

I have now added support for batch deletes which allows you to delete the posts in batches. Say suppose you have to delete 5000 posts, you can now delete them in 5 batches with 1000 in each batch instead of trying to delete all the 5000 posts in a single go which usually results in script timeout. Hope this helps most of the users. 🙂

Screenshot

Below is the screenshot of the updated admin screen of the Plugin.

Support for translation

I have also generated the pot file for the Plugin and is available with the Plugin. If you are willing to do translation for the Plugin, use the pot file to create the .po files for your language and let me know. I will add it to the Plugin after giving credit to you.

Download

You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

Feedback

If you have any comments or if you want to report any bugs, please leave a comment below or contact me.

Stay updated

I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my blog and in Twitter. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed or follow me in Twitter.

I have added two more new features to my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin.

• Ability to bulk delete pending posts
• Ability to bulk delete scheduled (future) posts

Screenshot

This is the screenshot of the admin UI with the new features.

Download

You can download the latest version of the Plugin from the Plugin’s home page.

What’s Next

The next feature which I am going to add to the Plugin is the ability to translate the Plugin in multiple languages. I am working on creating the .pot file so that others can translate the Plugin, by generating .po files.

Like the previous update, both these features were requested by the users of the Plugin. So if you have any feedback or feature request, don’t hesitate to contact me, I will try to add them to the Plugin.

One of the most requested features of my Bulk Delete Plugin is the ability to select posts based on date. For example, posts which are more than 30 days old or posts which were posted within the last 10 days etc.

I have added this feature to Bulk Delete and as of version 0.4 you can also restrict posts by date. You can download the latest version of the Plugin from my Plugin’s page.

To restrict posts which were posted within the last xx days, select “posted within last” from drop down and enter number of the days. Similarly to select posts which are older than xx days, select “older than” from drop down and enter the number of days.

Try it out and let me know how it works. Also let me know if you have any feedback regarding this feature or about the Plugin.

I am also planning to add this feature to my Bulk Move WordPress Plugin. So stay tuned. 🙂

I have fixed a bug in my Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin, which deleted drafts in a particular category even if only posts were selected. Thanks to one review for reporting it.

If you want to only delete posts in a category and not drafts, then you need to update to the latest version.

You can download the latest version from the Plugins home page. I have also uploaded the Plugin to the official directory to make your update process painless.

I am working on other features for the Plugin like deleting posts waiting for pending reviews etc. So stay tuned 🙂

Recently I was playing with some auto posting WordPress Plugin in my test server and it quickly filled up a particular category with posts. I then wanted to bulk-delete the posts belonging to a single category. But I could find any WordPress Plugin to bulk-delete posts based on category or tag. So I created one. 🙂

So guys I am releasing a new Plugin called Bulk Delete, which you can use to delete posts based on category or tag. I have also added abilities to delete all drafts, all post revisions or all pages.

Screenshot

The following is the screenshot of the admin interface.

Bulk Delete WordPress Plugin Screenshot

Download

You can download the Plugin for my WordPress Plugin page.

Disclaimer

Please note that there is no way to retrieve the posts once they are deleted. So be very careful while using this Plugin and also note that you cannot hold me responsible for any damages done. 🙂

Update: If you are just looking for a Plugin to move the posts from one category to anothe in bulk, rather than deleting them, then check out my Bulk Move Plugin instead.