How to Bulk Add Posts and Pages in WordPress (Best Method)

Back when I was managing multiple client websites, I faced a common challenge: quickly adding dozens of posts and pages without lots of manual work. Like many WordPress users, I started by creating each post individually, until I learned there was a better way.

Over the years, I’ve tested numerous plugins and methods for bulk uploading content to WordPress. Through trial and error (and helping many different beginners), I’ve discovered the most reliable approaches that work for any website size.

Today, I’m sharing my tested method for bulk adding posts and pages in WordPress. This approach has helped me reduce content upload time by 80% and works perfectly for both small blogs and large corporate websites.

When to Bulk Add Posts and Pages in WordPress

Setting up a new website is a big job. There are a lot of things to build and configure, and it can feel overwhelming just getting started. I remember facing that mountain of work myself.

That’s especially true when you need to create dozens, sometimes hundreds, of pages or posts right from the start. Manually clicking ‘Add New’ over and over and then adding parent and child pages one by one is incredibly time-consuming!

Another situation where adding content quickly is essential is if you’re a developer testing a new WordPress theme. You need something in there fast to see how layouts work, how the styling looks, and how different types of content appear.

Perhaps you need to create a basic structure for an online course, with a page for each lesson. Or maybe you have a list of products you need to draft pages for before filling in all the details. These moments all call for speed.

Now, if you just need placeholder text and images purely to see your theme structure and design, I appreciate the dummy content solutions out there. They’re perfect for that specific task and definitely have their place.

But what if you need to add your actual, custom content? Not just filler, but specific pages or posts that you already have the titles for, or even some initial text? Dummy content won’t work for that. You need your own real content entries created and ready to go.

That’s exactly the situation that led me down the path of finding a reliable way to bulk add content. I found myself asking, “There has to be a faster way to get these drafts created, right?”

Let’s take a look at how you can easily bulk-add posts and pages in WordPress.

Bulk Adding Posts and Pages in WordPress (Easiest Method)

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the Mass Pages/Posts Creator plugin. This free post and page generator plugin will help you add multiple pages or posts to your website all at once at the same time.

For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you will see the welcome wizard. This allows you to opt in to security and feature updates, view a quick tour video, and follow the developers on social media.

Simply click the green ‘Continue’ button at the bottom of the screen to navigate through the wizard.

After that, you will see the Dotstore Plugins » Mass Pages/Posts Creator page. Make sure you are in the ‘Add Mass Posts/Pages’ tab because it contains everything you need to bulk add posts and pages in WordPress.

Preparing Your Titles and Content

This page has a few fields to work with. It starts with options for a prefix or a postfix for your titles.

While you’ll often leave these blank, they can be useful. For example, I find them handy when creating a series of location pages or product variations where part of the title is the same.

Then comes the core part: adding your list of titles. You’ll find a large text area for this.

Here, you’ll enter the titles of the posts or pages you want to create. You will need to separate each title with a comma, as you see in the screenshot above.

Below the title area, you’ll see a basic editor. This is where you can add content that will be included in every post or page you generate.

It supports basic text formatting, adding links, and even media like images. There’s also a code view if you prefer working with HTML.

Now, this is important: whatever you put in this content area gets duplicated across all the items.

This is perfectly fine if you’re just creating drafts that you’ll fill in later with unique content. Or I sometimes use this field to create a very basic template structure or placeholder text that I edit later on each individual item.

But if every item needs unique content right away, you’ll likely want to leave this field empty for now. You’ll add the specific content later after the items are created.

Similarly, there’s an option to add an excerpt. Just like the main content, whatever you add here will be the same for every generated item.

Setting Up the Generation Options

Further down the page, you’ll configure how many items to create and what type they should be.

You can select the ‘Type’ from a drop-down menu, either Pages or Posts. This tells WordPress what kind of content entry to create.

One downside I noticed is that if you need to create custom post types, you will need to upgrade to the premium version of the plugin.

A feature I found interesting in this plugin is the ‘Number of posts’ field. The number you enter here doesn’t have to match the number of titles in your list.

If you enter a larger number than the number of titles you have, the plugin will cycle through your list of titles and reuse them until it reaches the number you specified.

Finally, you choose the ‘Status’ for the new items.

I recommend setting this to ‘Draft’. This gives you time to go into each new page or post, add the unique content, set categories, tags, and parent pages before making them public.

But another downside is that if you want to publish the items immediately upon creation, you’ll find that option is a premium feature.

You’ll see a little padlock icon next to paid features like this, such as next to the option to create child pages directly during generation.

Creating Your Content

With your list ready and settings configured, you’ll find the ‘Create’ button at the bottom of the page. With one click, the plugin will go to work. Based on your input, it will quickly generate the specified number of pages or posts.

Once finished, the plugin lists the titles of the items it has just created for you. It’s satisfying to see that list appear instantly instead of having clicked ‘Add New’ dozens or hundreds of times!

But those newly created items are essentially blank canvases. They have the title and maybe some default content, but they’re drafts.

Bulk creation is just the first part of the process. The next step is turning those drafts into actual, useful content.

Turning Bulk Added Drafts Into Real Content

So, you’ve got your list of new drafts. Now, you will need to add the unique details, which requires some manual effort.

You will need to go to Posts or Pages in your WordPress dashboard and then click ‘Edit’ on each one from your list.

Here, you’ll add the specific, unique content for that particular page or post. This is where your writing, images, and formatting come into play.

Adding Structure and Organization

Besides content, the other big piece missing from those bulk-created drafts is often structure and organization:

• For Pages, this means setting parent pages if you need a hierarchy. Since the free plugin doesn’t let you define parent/child relationships from your initial text list, you’ll need to do this manually using our guide on how to create a child page in WordPress.
• For Posts, the main organizational tasks are setting categories and tags. While you can edit categories and tags one by one in the post editor, you may find it faster to bulk move posts to categories and tags.

Other Quick Edits

You might want to make other changes to your drafts in bulk besides content and structure. WordPress’s standard bulk edit feature is great for this.

Simply select the drafts you want to edit using the checkboxes on the Posts or Pages lists. Then, you need to choose ‘Edit’ from the ‘Bulk Actions’ dropdown and click ‘Apply’.

A box will appear with options you can change for all selected items at once, like:

• Author
• Status (change them all from Draft to Pending Review or Publish)
• Comments status (allow/disallow)
• Pings status
• Categories and Tags (for posts)

I find that using the plugin for creation and then the WordPress bulk edit feature for status and author changes is a pretty efficient workflow!

Enhance Your WordPress Content Management With Expert Tips

I hope this tutorial helped you learn how to bulk-add posts and pages in WordPress. You may also want to see these helpful guides on different ways to take your WordPress content to the next level:

• How to Split WordPress Posts into Multiple Pages (Post Pagination)
• How to Make Sticky Posts in WordPress (Easy Steps)
• How to Archive Posts Without Deleting Them in WordPress
• How to Add Excerpts to Your Pages in WordPress (Step by Step)
• How to Show Related Pages in WordPress
• How to Display Popular Posts by Views in WordPress

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