Add Edit to Bulk Actions menu on Categories screen

[jane]

On edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category the only bulk action is Delete, because we never got around to adding Edit. We should add Edit to the bulk actions menu so people can change category parents easily. Has been requested on the Ideas forum a number of times, so am starting a ticket. If there's a technical reason not to add Edit to the bulk actions on this screen, then we should get rid of the menu and just have a Delete button. Adding Edit would be preferable, though, for consistency and usefulness.

[meheranandk]

How do you expect to do bulk edit? Have text boxes all lined up or something? Doesn't make a lot of sense.

[jane]

They would probably be columns with option to make children or parent or some such. The UI group will likely mock it up, but since this is targeted for 3.1, not 3.0, no one has started on it yet.

[F J Kaiser]

See Q#1 > ??
Would prefer to see bulk editing for users first. Ex.: ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11392

[chriscct7]

I like the idea of this enhancement. Would make a good first bug for someone

[nicholas_io]

The proposed Bulk edit mode should allow edits only for setting terms parents?

[penyaskito]

I had a look at this during #wceu Contributor Day in Seville.

What I would expect from this feature is allowing the user to only edit the parent term. For that, we should add a inline-edit-parent.js providing the form for doing so. This can be based on inline-edit-tax.js.

I would add a inline_edit_parent method in WP_Terms_List_Table, returning the form for editing this.

WP_Terms_List_Table::get_bulk_actions should return a edit-parent action, which we need to handle at edit-tags.php.

Otherwise, we need a new page with a new form for doing that, which I don't think it is consistent with the rest of the interface.

Does this make sense?

[nicholas_io]

It makes sense @penyaskito. I'll try to make a patch for this, I'm already studying how this was done for the Posts.

About the 'edit-parent' action that get_bulk_actions should return, I think it's better to call simply 'edit', since we could add more edit options in the future.

[dipali.dhole27@…]

I worked on above feature request. Added patch for the same.

[chriscct7]

The REQUEST needs to be sanitized. Also "Parent Category" needs to be l10n'd

[dipali.dhole27@…]

Added another patch with changes

[Chouby]

I would suggest to add the filter 'bulk_edit_custom_box' (the same way 'quick_edit_custom_box' exists for posts and taxonomies).

[dipali.dhole27@…]

Added the filter 'bulk_edit_custom_box'

[tzon]

I tested it on Macbook Pro OS X. It worked great for 3 different levels of parents.

[swissspidy]

Just had a look at the patch. It doesn't apply cleanly anymore so definitely needs a refresh.

Some thoughts:

• Do not change the .gitignore file.
• ​WordPress coding standards need to be followed properly. For example, there's lots of empty lines and also undocumented hooks.
• Use the --no-prefix flag when creating the patch using Git.

[dipali.dhole27@…]

Refreshed Patch

[swissspidy]

@dipali.dhole27@…: Thanks for updating the patch & updating the keywords! Trac doesn't send notifications for attachment uploads, so the refreshed patch went unnoticed.

Unfortunately, the latest patch does not apply cleanly anymore because of some changes in the JS file. Would you mind having another look? Don't forget to add a separate comment when you upload a new patch.

[DrewAPicture]

Assigning to mark the good-first-bug as "claimed".

@dipalidhole27gmailcom: See comment:22

[vinod dalvi]

Refreshed Patch

[vinod dalvi]

I have refreshed the patch.

[webcommsat]

This ticket is on the agenda for the component bug scrub on Monday 28 March 2022, 20:00 UTC. Does anyone have an update or can test the refreshed patch if this is still needed. @dipalidhole27gmailcom @vinod-dalvi Thanks.

[webcommsat]

Relating to this, ticket and all comments reviewed in component review today.
@oglekler, @webcommsat reviewing and testing (results will be added to this ticket). Other tests welcomed of latest patch.

The only option under bulk edit currently is to delete. There is no edit option as identified by the ticket when first raised.

With bulk actions, the only thing which can be done is to change the parent category. Everything else seems individual to each category itself.

Further tests of the most recent patch needed, and checks against issues found previously.

@oglekler: It is disappointing from that you can not edit description. This would be out of scope for this ticket, but may be useful.