News!! How To Alter Labels On To A Greater Extent Than Than I Post At A Time

This article shows how to edit the cite of an existing Label value inwards blogger, without editing each private postal service that it's applied to.

Blogger together with Labels

Previously, I've explained that labels are tags yous tin purpose to categorize your spider web log posts, together with that the are the raw fabric of putting your posts into pages.

But what happens if yous desire to alter the value of a label? For example, if yous receive got a lot of posts that are labelled "Colour", but yous uncovering that most of your visitors are from the the U.S. of A. together with retrieve yous receive got pitiful spelling!

It would travel dainty if Blogger had a characteristic that said "change all X labels to Y labels" - but it doesn't (at moment, anyway).

One selection is to edit each post individually, removing the sometime label together with adding a novel one. This works, but tin travel fourth dimension consuming.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ameliorate selection is to purpose the bulk-labelling tools. This is a lot easier, though non quite equally slowly equally yous mightiness think.

Blogger's Post-Dashboard labelling tools

This movie shows the tools that yous tin purpose to operate alongside labels (outside of the post-editor).  They are all works life on the Dashboard when yous are looking at the Posts tab.

The Group tick box either selects or un-selects all the posts yous tin currently run into on the Dashboard > Posts tab (depending on whether they're selected or non at the instant - it works similar a toggle-switch).


The Label activity button applies an activity to all the posts that are currently selected.   You can:

• Make a novel label together with add together it to the selected posts
• Add an existing label to posts that don't currently receive got that label  (by simply choosing the label) together with are currently selected
• Delete an existing label from posts that practise currently receive got that label  (by simply choosing the label) together with are currently selected

Example Label Action Button values

The Label value selector lets yous run into a listing of simply posts alongside a label.

The Posts-per-page selector is where yous select how many of your posts are listed inwards the Dashboard > Posts tab.

The Paging buttons let yous movement through the listing of displayed posts.

How to alter a label name

1   Close Blogger, together with re-open it again.    (see below for an explanation of this step).


2   On the Dashboard > Posts screen, brand certain that yous are viewing 50 posts per screen  (or less if yous don't receive got many posts)
Do this alongside the Posts-per-page selector near the top-right corner. You ask to practise it because Blogger's bulk-label tools volition exclusively permit yous operate alongside 50 or less posts at a time.


iii   Select the label that yous desire to rename from the Label value selector drop-down list.
This restricts the listing to exclusively posts alongside that label.
If yous receive got to a greater extent than than 50 posts alongside the label, thus at that topographic point volition travel to a greater extent than than i screen-full of posts. You tin run into this inwards the Paging-buttons at the elevation correct of the screen.


iv   For each screen-full of posts that is shown:

• Use the group-tick box at the elevation of the listing of posts to select all posts that are currently on your screen.

• Either pick out the novel value from the  Label activity push drop-down bill of fare - or purpose the New Label ... option inwards the kickoff screenful of posts.   This volition attach the novel label cite to the posts yous receive got selected.

• Choose the label value from the Label activity push drop-down menu to Remove the sometime label from the posts yous receive got selected.

• Use the group-tick box at the elevation of the listing of posts again, this fourth dimension to unselect all posts that are currently on your screen.

After yous receive got done this for all the screens of posts that currently receive got the sometime label value:

• You should travel left on the Dashboard > Posts screen, alongside a message maxim that at that topographic point are no posts alongside your sometime label. 
• The sometime label volition non travel attached to whatsoever posts, together with volition non travel visible inwards the Label-value-selector. 
• If yous displaying labels alongside your posts, thus visitors to your spider web log who purpose a web-browser volition non travel able to run into the sometime label value whatsoever more, together with it volition non travel listed inwards whatsoever Label gadgets yous receive got used.

What was the catch?

The approach described hither deals alongside 2 "twitches" alongside how Blogger works.

Firstly, closing together with re-starting Blogger earlier yous start makes certain that absolutely none of your posts are selected initially: I've works life that sometimes if a postal service is selected, together with thus yous page upwards or down, that postal service is all the same selected. And sometimes a postal service is selected at in i lawsuit later yous receive got edited it. It tin travel quite difficult to uncovering these (because at that topographic point is currently no characteristic to listing "selected posts only"), thus the re-start is the safest approach.

Secondly, at that topographic point is a maximum of 50 posts per label action. This is a pain: it agency that if yous desire to re-name the label on 300 posts, yous ask to practise it inwards six groups of 50 each times. I can sympathise with Blogger virtually making certain that actions similar this don't receive got "too long" - but the 50 posts bound does seem rattling low.

Is the sometime label gone for good?

This is an interesting question.  Blogger has laid a bound of a maximum of 5000 labels per blog. Once yous receive got supervene upon a label value is the way described above, I'm non certain if it volition travel removed totally, or if it all the same counts towards the 5000 fifty-fifty though it's no longer inwards use. (And I'm non virtually to manually reach a spider web log 5000 labels simply to assay it to uncovering out!)

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