Quick Edit
Quick Edit is the small inline form in a WordPress list screen that lets you change a title, slug, date, status or categories without opening the post.
In plain English
Hover a row in Posts or Pages and the links appear underneath: Edit, Quick Edit, Trash, View. Quick Edit opens the row itself into a set of fields.
It does not touch the content, which is exactly why it is fast. It is for the details around the content.
Why it matters
Fixing twelve slugs by opening twelve posts, waiting for the editor and clicking update is ten minutes. In Quick Edit it is one.
It is also safer on a builder site: opening a page in the editor to change its title risks resaving the layout, and Quick Edit never loads it.
How it works
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You open the rowThe list row becomes a form in place.
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You change the detailsTitle, slug, date, author, status, password, categories, tags, comment settings.
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You updateThe row refreshes with the new values and nothing else is touched.
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Bulk Edit does several at onceSelect the rows first, then Bulk actions, Edit.
Changing a slug changes the URL
Any existing link to the old address breaks. If the page has been live a while, add a redirect from the old slug to the new one.