How to change bulk post status

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I have about 2300+ post in my blog is it possible to change status from publish to draft at a time? 

add_action('publish_post', 'check_publish_post', 10, 2);

function check_publish_post ($post_id, $post) {

    $query = array(
        'ID' => $post_id,
        'post_status' => 'draft',
    );
    wp_update_post( $query, true );
}

5 Answers
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Yes, it’s possible to loop all publish posts and change their post status to draft.

add_action('admin_init','wpse_244394');

function wpse_244394(){
    $args = array('post_type'=> 'post',
         'post_status' => 'publish',
         'posts_per_page'=>-1
    );
    $published_posts = get_posts($args);

    foreach($published_posts as $post_to_draft){
       $query = array(
        'ID' => $post_to_draft->ID,
        'post_status' => 'draft',
       );
       wp_update_post( $query, true );  
    }
}

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