Bulk remove wordpress categories from posts

+It is unbelievable the world most renowned blogging platform wordpress(started in 2003)with million of user, thousand of plug-in still has those "tiny weak point".



At least with the latest version v2.84 The Categories and Tags can be ADDED in bulk to a set of posts but it is not possible to CHANGE, or DELETE, a Category for those Posts.


While Bulk Delete in a WordPress can be done with a Plugin via Bulk Delete (yeah ,everything need plug in at wordpress) The plug in which can be used to delete posts in bulk from selected categories or tags.This Plugin can also delete all drafts, post revisions or pages.Note that this is not what i mentioned earlier REMOVE the selected categories.Instead,it DELETE the posts under the selected categories.

HOW to remove bulk categories from posts without disturbing the existing ones.Some genius actually suggest that we downgrade the wordpress version.

"I used to use an addon called Batch Categories it allowed you to mass remove or add a single category from posts.This addon does not work in 2.7 But I understand that this feature may be already in 2.7.But I cant figure it out anywhere. Basically from what i can tell its all or nothing on the batch category editing in 2.7 ."

"You May have to downgrade to 2.6 and use your Batch Categories plugin to do what you need to do, then upgrade again to 2.7 - yeah, I know, not the best solution."

You can get the plug-in here.

I am not sure that plug-in work in v2.7 but it's not work in v 2.8 which i am using in my other blog. However the new wordpress do provide a option to remove/change the category of the post.There call it" Quick Edit" the solutions is you need to manually editing each individual post ., so it's still manual, but it's something that better then none,not like you have to load up the whole post page to edit the categories.

In short knowing the new wordpress only allows you to add categories to posts in bulk fashion, but not remove categories from posts or overwrite them with something else in bulk will save you a lot of time just try to figure it.

And i suggest you should stop editing your wordpress categories if you are using the latest wordpress.Imagine if you have hundred posts and then being stuck with manually editing them all via Quick Edit. It makes absolutely nonsense to do a bulk update to add a category. Unfortunately, if you have added the new category to replace your previous old category,both will stay there until someone fix the problem.Yeah we appropriate wordpress is a great blogging platform but We would love to have a way to delete ALL posts within a particular category.

The problem has made editing categories in wordpress:one of the Top wasted time Internet programs.

BTW,did you know you can add and remove a label/category in blogger/blogspot in a second without using a single plug-in.

Is There money in blogging?

The good stuff lasts, the chaff separates from the wheat, the cream rises to the top, all that. The earliest bloggers and the self-sustained content producers may not like the idea that the blogosphere is changing and will require an old law of media: Content is king, but the king answers to his god, the network.

Jason Lee Miller *

How many of you making money blogging?What we mean here is making money enough for living.How many time you spend to earn that amout of money?Do you think there is still plenty money to be make online from the average peeple like you and me?Do you think worth it?

Is blogging doomed, or just in need of new blood?

"Dan Lyons, the Newsweek writer who rocketed to blogsopheric recognition because of his satirical blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, now soured on "another high-tech fairy tale." His reason: there's no money in blogging. The day the New York Times blew his Fake Steve Jobs cover, Lyons says, "more than 500,000 people hit my site-by far the biggest day I'd ever had-and through Google's AdSense program I earned about a hundred bucks. Over the course of that entire month, in which my site was visited by 1.5 million people, I earned a whopping total of $1,039.81. Soon after this I struck an advertising deal that paid better wages. But I never made enough to quit my day job."

Those heralded A-listers we all flashback over the past few years? Many of them are hanging it up. Mike Arrington: handed over the TechCrunch reins to hired staff. Jason Calacanis: moved to email. Their chief complaints: fame. Too many haters, too much spit in the face.

Every tech blogger's Silicon Valley heyday nemesis-which has reduced staff to exactly one blogger-Valleywag was quick to note Lyons scored a book deal out of his little experiment with popular anonymity. And it was well deserved. The Fake Steve Jobs idea was a well-played stroke of genius.

This crop of A-listers aren't the first to have blog-related meltdowns. They may be, though, the first to really go and stay gone. Self-proclaimed original blogger Dave Winer is known for periodic threats to stop blogging. Yet, he still blogs. Robert Scoble, chief among the famous-for-blogging-and-I-wrote-the-book-on-blogging elite, is prone to emotional denouncements of the craft and self-imposed mental health hiatuses. Yet, he still blogs, though to a lesser degree.

Some people just can't help it. They have to blog. Like it's a sickness. Some are victims of their own success. Fame isn't, by nature, for everyone, even if fifteen minutes has been edited down to five public-commentary-abusive ones. And still yet others are disillusioned victims of hype and zeitgeists.

This list of types could go on and on. There are as many reasons to blog, or not to blog, as there are people. One thing is for certain: we seem to be at a blogging crossroads. Sadly (but perhaps naturally), pivotal, transformational (and sometimes bloody) moments are often misconstrued as deadly ones. Blogging has reached a crucial moment in its evolution, one where competition for money, credibility, and attention has never been fiercer. The weak, those whose prime devotion is getting rich, getting famous, getting laid, or getting approval will be culled. In the end, as in the beginning, it's about purity and (some type of) artistic integrity.

Blogging, I think, is at a similar moment in its development, a moment all writers (and other content producers) must struggle through until they form a key component of their wills that says never give up.

I find it interesting that as soon as negativity about the economy set in, especially among those tech bloggers who thrive on bubbles and print journalists suddenly out of a decent-paying job who are forced to turn to blogging or dry cleaning, the negativity surrounding blogging also set in. Not enough money. Too many haters. A waste of time and energy. All hype no delivery. A cause of undue stress, obesity, and myocardial infarction. These were the same people, back when that bubble was still good and cozy, once so jazzed about The Secret, this century's remake of Norman Vincent Peele's The Power of Positive Thinking.

True, the average blogger pulls in a mere $5,000-$6,000 per year, and that average is obscenely skewed by the top one percent of bloggers pulling more than $200,000. True, there are more abandoned blogs than active ones. True, content in a world that values cheap, short, and easy has been reduced to embarrassing values (I saw one ad on craigslist offering $1.50 per "article"). True, there is worldwide competition for diffused and dwindling ad dollars. True, there has been a deluge of marketers, spammers, and professional bloggers (a.k.a. writers) and "mainstream" media types pushing out the wild and wooly (and unreliable and piggybacking and libelous) amateur, citizen journalists. True, viewers, readers, and fans can be nasty.

Welcome to the media business.

The good stuff lasts, the chaff separates from the wheat, the cream rises to the top, all that. The earliest bloggers and the self-sustained content producers may not like the idea that the blogosphere is changing and will require an old law of media: Content is king, but the king answers to his god, the network.

Save for a few shining stars (think, using radio as an example, Howard Stern an Rush Limbaugh and their hundreds of millions) and stellar independent publications, the network is what will save the blogosphere and content producers. It's always been tough for individuals to make it in media without a network behind them, paying them good (even great) wages to produce, while the network aggregates and sells content and collective audiences to advertisers.

Like it or not, the corporation is going to have to enter the blogosphere, and by irony, will ruin it in order to save it. Luckily, unlike the past, there will be wider avenues via user-generated media for quality content producers, so long as they have the passion and will to walk those avenues. Besides, writers write, bloggers blog, regardless

This is a very good post from Jason Lee Miller.He is a WebProNews editor and writer covering business and technology.

Hack The uncrackable Password

Since most users also use dictionary words as the root to their “complex” password, and follow other common conventions (capitalized letters are at the beginning, numbers are at the end), a simple hybrid attack will break most of them in less than a day. Trust me, I know -- I do it for a living.

Quate from Roger A. Grimes*

The importance of longer password length

THE conventional thinking is that the additional complexity presents such an increased workload for the hacker that complexity is the holy grail of password hacking prevention. After all, conventional wisdom says that all the good Web sites require complexity. Heck, a Microsoft Windows log-on password requires complexity. Every new password creation advice on complexity - but gives scant consideration to the equal (or better) importance of longer password length.

They're all wrong! Character-for-character, password length is more important for security than complexity. Requiring complexity but allowing passwords to remain short makes passwords more vulnerable to attack than simply requiring easier-to-remember, longer passwords.

For everyone using six- to nine-character passwords with “complexity,” I appreciate it. I get paid to break in to systems for a living, and you make my job easier.

Strength is provided by increasing the number of possible passwords the attacker has to guess (let’s call this the keyspace even though it really isn’t appropriate in this context). The keyspace is represented mathematically as X^L, where X is the number of possible characters that can be in the password and L is the length. If you do the basic analysis, you can see that changes in L are more significant, character for character, than changes in X.

But conventional wisdom will have you believe that increasing complexity forces the password attacker to use significantly more possible characters in their attack. In the X^L formula example, forcing the use of capitalized letters requires the value of X to go from 26 for all possible lower case letters to 52 for both upper case and lower case letters. And if you include nonalphanumeric characters, X goes up to 94 to support all the normal single characters you can type on a 101 keyboard. Windows will allow you to use any Unicode character, which includes upwards of 65,000 different symbols.

Of course, most people only use the 94 standard keyboard keys. And if people actually evenly used the 94 characters of potential complexity, short passwords would be uncrackable, because 94^8 = 6,095,689,385,410,816 possible passwords -- which is uncrackable using anything known today or in the near future.

when trying to increase the strength of your passwords, my advice is to consider length as much or more than you consider complexity. For my money, length is all the protection I need. Make your admin and root passwords 15 or more characters long and forget about complexity -- at 15 characters-plus, they are all but make it nearly uncrackable.


*Roger A. Grimes is contributing editor of the InfoWorld Test Center. He also writes the Security Adviser blog.