Bulk update form responses is a WordPress ability from Jetpack — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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Bulk update form responses

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Jetpack Backup & Site Management jetpack-forms/bulk-update-responses

Mark multiple Jetpack Forms responses as spam or restore them from spam in a single call.

Requires the Jetpack plugin on WordPress 6.9+. Abilities are registered by several bundled Jetpack packages (automattic/jetpack-backup, jetpack-connection, jetpack-forms, jetpack-stats) plus the main plugin's own registrars for Related Posts, Shortlinks, Sitemaps, Newsletter/Subscriptions, and Monitor. Permission requirements vary by ability — most gate on 'manage_options', 'jetpack_admin_page', or 'view_stats', while Forms abilities use 'edit_pages'. Backup abilities only register when a Backup product/plan is active; Sitemaps, Monitor, and Newsletter abilities only register when their respective module is turned on.

What it does

This ability applies a bulk action, either mark_as_spam or mark_as_not_spam, to a list of Jetpack Forms response IDs. Each response is processed individually by issuing a per-id status update (to spam or publish), so the result reports which ids succeeded and which failed, each failure carrying its own error code and message. After the per-id updates complete, it also teaches Akismet from the responses that successfully flipped status by calling Jetpack's bulk_actions REST endpoint, mirroring how the Jetpack dashboard performs bulk spam/not-spam actions.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Mark form responses #201, #202, and #205 as spam."

Inputs

Name Type Required Description
action string Yes The bulk action to perform: "mark_as_spam" or "mark_as_not_spam".
ids array Yes Response IDs to update (at least one required).

Returns

An object with the action performed, a succeeded array of response IDs that were updated, and a failed array of objects (id, code, message) for any responses that could not be updated.

Permission

The current user must have the 'edit_pages' capability.

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