# The Bulk Editor - Sheetline 1.x documentation

> A tour of Posts → Bulk Editor and Pages → Bulk Editor: the search box, filters, columns, the grid and the save bar.

**Posts → Bulk Editor** shows your posts as a grid, one row per post and one column per field. **Pages → Bulk Editor** does the same for pages. Both are built from the same list table as WordPress's own Posts screen, so most of it will look familiar.

![The Bulk Editor](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/1039/screenshot-1.png)

## From top to bottom

- **Search** (top right): searches titles, excerpts and content. See **Finding posts**.
- **Filters**: status, month, author, category and tag (pages have status, month and author), applied with the **Filter** button.
- **Pagination** (right): the number of posts found and the pages. Choose how many posts a page shows in **Screen Options**.
- **The grid**: the title stays on the left while you scroll sideways through the other columns. Under each title are its ID and **Edit** and **View** links, which open the post's own screen or the post on your site.
- **The save bar** appears at the bottom as soon as something has changed, with the number of unsaved changes, **Discard** and **Save changes**. It stays in view as you scroll.

A post's status is shown after its title when it isn't published ("— Draft", "— Scheduled"), as on the Posts screen. A lock and a name under the title mean someone has that post open in the editor right now; its cells are read-only until they're done.

## The columns

| Column | Posts | Pages | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | ✓ | ✓ | Always shown |
| Slug | ✓ | ✓ | The address part, e.g. `care-for-linen`. Hidden until you switch it on |
| Status | ✓ | ✓ | Published, Scheduled, Pending review, Draft or Private |
| Date | ✓ | ✓ | The publish date and time; a date ahead schedules a published post |
| Author | ✓ | ✓ | Anyone who can write posts |
| Parent | | ✓ | Another page, or none |
| Order | | ✓ | The page order. Hidden until you switch it on |
| Categories | ✓ | | Picked from a list |
| Tags | ✓ | | Picked from a list |
| Excerpt | ✓ | | Edited in a larger box. Hidden until you switch it on |
| Comments | ✓ | ✓ | Open (Yes) or closed (No). Hidden until you switch it on |
| Sticky | ✓ | | Shown first on your blog. Hidden until you switch it on |
| Format | ✓ | | Only if your theme supports post formats. Hidden until you switch it on |
| Template | | ✓ | Only if your theme has page templates. Hidden until you switch it on |

Plugins can add columns of their own; they appear after these, and work the same way. Sheetline Pro adds featured images, custom fields and SEO fields, and a Bulk Editor for each custom post type you choose.

Click a column's heading to sort by it, where it can be sorted. Hide the columns you don't need in **Screen Options**; see **Columns and Screen Options**.

## How saving works

Your changes stay in the grid, highlighted, until you click **Save changes**. Then Sheetline saves each changed post once, through WordPress, exactly as the editor would. See **Saving changes**.

Source: https://extendiment.com/plugins/sheetline/docs/1.x/the-bulk-editor