Approving questions programmatically...

Question

I have ended up with a lot of questions/answers that need approval ( more than 500 ). I can do it through the Admin/Moderate screen but this is going to take a lot of time. I am wondering if I can get the question ids and pass it to a function and do the approval. Directly changing Q_QUEUED to Q seems dangerous. Help appreciated.

Answer 1

One way is to run Javascript in the browser console. For example, in Google Chrome open Dev Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I), go to the Console tab and enter

$('.qa-form-light-button-approve').click();

Note: I'd suggest testing before automatically "clicking" everything, for example

$('.qa-form.light-button-approve').css('outline', '2px solid red');

That will add an outline to all the buttons that would be clicked. Make sure that's all the correct ones before running the click() version :)

Comments

Ctrl+Shift+I? I've learned something new! I've been using Ctrl+Shift+J :D

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Awesome. Thanks. Worked like a charm.