Chapter 18. Managing Posts and Pages
After you've been adding more and more content to your site, you'll want faster ways to navigate through it and make changes faster or on a larger scale. This lesson is about finding and editing content more efficiently.
On the Island Travel site, for example, I might want to add a tag to every single post that mentions a particular airline. If I have dozens and dozens of posts that meet that criteria, and given the tools you've seen so far, that sounds like a long process. But in this lesson you learn how to find posts and pages quickly, and then edit them all just as fast.
Finding Posts and Pages
When you want to edit your content, WordPress displays the most recent posts first by default. While you can increase the number of posts it displays at any one time, there are more efficient strategies for finding material than simply scanning long lists of posts.
Finding Posts
The starting point for finding posts is the Edit Posts link on the admin menu. You already know that this brings up a list of all your posts, but look closely now at the top area of the screen, shown in Figure 18-1.
At the very top you see a menu with All, Published, Pending Review, and Draft. This is very helpful when you want to see only your Drafts, or if you have multiple users and you're the editor, you can quickly find all the items Pending Review before being published. Keep in mind that you may not see all of these choices. If no posts are in review status, for example, Pending ...
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