Title: Mass Edit Posts to make Private
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Mass Edit Posts to make Private

 *  [monnibo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monniblog/)
 * (@monniblog)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-edit-posts-2/)
 * I want to make everything before a certain Month/Year PRIVATE. I don’t want to
   have to do this one-by-one as I have SEVERAL years of posts I just imported. 
   Is there any work-around…. maybe in my database?

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 *  [noname1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greyisgood/)
 * (@greyisgood)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-edit-posts-2/#post-812556)
 * no way in wordpress.
 *  Thread Starter [monnibo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monniblog/)
 * (@monniblog)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-edit-posts-2/#post-812606)
 * what about via phpAdmin in mySQL?
 *  [noname1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greyisgood/)
 * (@greyisgood)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-edit-posts-2/#post-812608)
 * yeah – if you know what you are doing.
 *  Thread Starter [monnibo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monniblog/)
 * (@monniblog)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-edit-posts-2/#post-812618)
 * I’m pretty competent with webstuffs… could you direct me to a tutorial?

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 * [import posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import-posts/)
 * [private-posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/private-posts/)

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 * Last reply from: [monnibo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monniblog/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-edit-posts-2/#post-812618)
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