Adds a bulk action to all post types to allow setting the publish date to a specific date time.
As of April 2026, Bulk edit publish date is a WordPress bulk plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 20% this week. Top alternative: WP Bulk Delete.
Adds a bulk action to all post types to allow setting the publish date to a specific date time.
The bulk action is by default applied to all post types.
The plugin uses input types of date and time to allow users to set the desired publish date / time.
This is a very lightweight plugin as has as little code as possible, and is also designed to be developer friendly
with alter hooks allowing other plugins to make changes to how this plugin operates.
Hassle free easy method to set the date of many or all (custom) posts at same time.
Thank you so much! You saved a lot of time to me! God bless you making this available free of charge!
very nice plugin
but the plugin doesnt work when editing more than 50 posts
it will break
any method and fix for this?
I have a number of posts that update every day from tables, but I also had to edit each one, just to update the date every day.
This little plugin lets me select those posts, and update the post date for them nice and easily. A real time saver.
One little issue. I have to set the new time for the post about 12 hours earlier than my time zone, otherwise it schedules the post somehow.
But other than that, it’s perfect.
Thank you, this plugin works perfectly. Just what I needed.
This type of functionality should be inherent in WordPress. But of course it’s not. The plugin has saved hours and hours of my day. Thank you.
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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