“WooCommerce Advanced Bulk Edit” Documentation by George Iron & Yas G.

“WooCommerce Advanced Bulk Edit”

Version: 5.1
Created: 2014/06/16
Updated: 2022/05/03
By: George Iron & Yas G.
Website: wpmelon.com
Email: woocomstaff@gmail.com

Thank you for purchasing my plugin. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please submit a support ticket here. Thanks so much!

Table of Contents

  1. Quick Start Guide
  2. Viewing products
  3. Show/hide columns
  4. Editing products
  5. Using bulk edit
  6. Editing attributes
  7. Deleting products
  8. Custom fields
  9. CSV Update
  10. Change log
  11. Sources and Credits

A) Quick Start Guide - top

With the Advanced Bulk Edit plugin, you can easily edit your products both individually or in bulk. Editable fields are: Title, SKU, Category, Tags, Regular and sale price, Sale Price From, Sale Price To, Tax Status, Tax Class, Weight, Height, Width, Length, Stock Quantity, Stock Status, Manage Stock, Allow Backorders, Sold Individually, Shipping class, Purchase Note, Catalog Visibility, Product Status, Downloadable, Virtual, Down. Expiry, Down. Limit, Down. Files, Down. Type (schema), Featured, Button text, Product URL.

Installing the plugin:

First of all, you need to download the plugin file and unzip it (if you are reading this, you have probably done so already).

Now you need to do one of the following:

    1. In the WordPress administration panel, open the Plugins -> Add new -> Upload page.
    2. Select and upload the woocommerce-advanced-bulk-edit.zip file (the plugin files on the picture above) and click Activate Plugin.

    1. Unzip the woocommerce-advanced-bulk-edit.zip archive into your WordPress plugins folder (located at /wp-content/plugins/).
    2. Open your browser and go to your WordPress admin panel.
    3. Open the Plugins -> Installed plugins page and activate the WooCommerce Advanced Bulk Edit plugin.

B) Viewing products - top

The plugin is accessible via Advanced Bulk Edit option of the Products menu.

By default no filters are applied and when you click the Get Products button, all of the available products will be loaded into the editor.

You can easily filter the products by title, regular and sale price, categories, attributes, sku and tags:

C) Viewing different product fields - top

Be default only part of the available fields are shown in the spreadsheet. To view different ones, click the Show/Hide Fields button at the bottom and choose which columns to display.

D) Editing products - top

You can edit each product by simply clicking on its fields in the table. Type the new value and simply hit Enter or click on another cell.

After you've finished editing the field, a red triangle will appear on its top-left corner to indicate that this value has been changed and will be updated in the database.
Note ! Changes are saved via the Save Changes button or when navitaging to a different page of products !

It is easy to revert to the original value of any row. Simply select the row and then click the Selected Rows button (selected rows are the ones with a check mark at their start). Reverting is avalaible for changes prior each save.

E) Using bulk edit - top

To use the bulk edit functionality you have to select the rows first.

Click the Bulk Edit button to show the edit dialog. Select the appropriate options and type the new values.

Click OK to confirm the changes.

Note! To bulk edit images, select the products first and then click on one of the selected ones.

F) Editing attributes - top

Note! By default all attributes are dinamically retrieved and added as separate columns.They are not visible and must be enabled via the "Show/Hide Fields" button first.

After that editing attributes is like any other taxonomy. Important note about the attribute handling by the plugin:
You can add values directly to variations, the plugin will check the parent if the attribute is visible for variations and will enable it/add it automatically - you don't have to add it to the parent first (if it is currently missing of course).
Note! When you remove all attribute terms of variable products, the parent element has to be edited and saved separately.

G) Deleting products - top

Note! If you delete variations using the default "Move to Trash" option and the parent still exists, the variation will not be deleted. Variations only must be deleted with the "Delete permanently" option selected.

H) Custom fields - top

To enter your cutom fields, click the Custom fields button.
String and number meta fields are self-explanatory. Let’s look at the dropdown select meta field. Field name would be the field id, and the different options should be entered in the edit field below separated by commas.

Hierarchical custom taxonomies are category-like - new temrs can not be entered via the plugin, you can only choose existing ones.

Normal custom taxonomies are tags-like - you can choose whether new terms can be inserted via the plugin.

I) Requirements for CSV Update - top

Note! This feature has been deprecated in favor of WooCommerce's own CSV import/export.

You can show it by enabling Debug Mode in the settings.

G) Change log - top

K) Sources and Credits - top

Many thanks go out to the following:

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this plugin. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the plugin on CodeCanyon, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.

George Iron

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