WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Batch edit to change post type from "writing" to "photo" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/batch-edit-to-change-post-type-from-writing-to-photo WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Batch edit to change post type from "writing" to "photo" en Fri, 24 May 2013 13:29:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 paulaceciliamartin on "Batch edit to change post type from "writing" to "photo"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/batch-edit-to-change-post-type-from-writing-to-photo#post-1028929 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:16:47 +0000 paulaceciliamartin 1028929@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks! That helped. One last thing: before, my image URLs were from static.flickr.com/etc. which is what I wanted. Now, though, it looks like my images have been saved into the WordPress Media Library even though when I posted the photo, I used the Flickr URLs. How/why did that happen?

]]> justpi on "Batch edit to change post type from "writing" to "photo"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/batch-edit-to-change-post-type-from-writing-to-photo#post-1028637 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:42:12 +0000 justpi 1028637@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is no "Format" pulldown if the theme you're using doesn't support alternative post formats.

But now that I'm reading your original question again, I should say there's a misunderstanding. A post with a photo doesn't have to be an Image format post. In most themes standard posts do display regularly inserted images. The purpose of an Image post format isn't to make the image show up, it's to make that post look different than standard posts.

If you're talking about The Columnist, the right way to make images show up is set them as featured images.

]]> paulaceciliamartin on "Batch edit to change post type from "writing" to "photo"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/batch-edit-to-change-post-type-from-writing-to-photo#post-1028281 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:44:05 +0000 paulaceciliamartin 1028281@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is no "Format" pulldown menu after I click "Apply." The only things I can edit are: categories, tags, author, comments, status, pings, and sticky. Would I get different options if I tried a different theme, edit everything, then set it back to my original theme?

]]> justpi on "Batch edit to change post type from "writing" to "photo"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/batch-edit-to-change-post-type-from-writing-to-photo#post-1028169 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:29:21 +0000 justpi 1028169@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Posts > All Posts: click the little square to select all the posts, select Edit from the Bulk Actions pulldown, click Apply, select Image from the Format pulldown, click Update. Repeat for pages 2, 3 etc, if you have many posts.

]]> paulaceciliamartin on "Batch edit to change post type from "writing" to "photo"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/batch-edit-to-change-post-type-from-writing-to-photo#post-1028066 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:15:55 +0000 paulaceciliamartin 1028066@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Each post in my blog is a photograph. However, I did not know that when I created posts, they were automatically "writing" posts. (I only found out when I tried a different theme, Avid, and the images wouldn't show up as they were "writing" posts.) I need to change all of my posts into "photo" posts instead. Is there a batch edit function that will enable me to do this in either the free WordPress account or paid? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.
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