{"id":1028,"date":"2021-05-12T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:32:03","slug":"how-to-convert-multi-simple-products-to-external","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/how-to-convert-multi-simple-products-to-external\/","title":{"rendered":"How to convert multi simple products To External?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Converting multi simple products to external is very important when you have some products in your online store which must be purchased from another website or you need to resell them as an affiliate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To bulk edit those products and convert their type to external, there is a easy way in <a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/plugins\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/?utm_source=kb&amp;utm_content=convert-to-external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Products<\/a> plugin as following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Step 1: Filter simple products<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To filter simple products, you need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to the main page of our plugin from <strong>WordPress dashboard<\/strong> ><strong> iThemeland<\/strong> > <strong>PBULKiT<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on \u201c<strong>Filter Form<\/strong>\u201c<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Filter-Form-1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Filter-Form-1.png\" alt=\"find simple product in WooCommerce product bulk editing plugin\" class=\"wp-image-2699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Filter-Form-1.png 1700w, https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Filter-Form-1-1536x599.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open \u201d<strong>Type<\/strong>\u201c tab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the combo box in front of \u201c<strong>Product Type<\/strong>\u201c<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Product-Type.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1518\" height=\"837\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Product-Type.png\" alt=\"search for product type in bulk plugin\" class=\"wp-image-2701\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select \u201c<strong>Simple Product<\/strong>\u201d from the list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Simple-Product.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1511\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Simple-Product.png\" alt=\"simple products in WooCommerce bulk product editing\" class=\"wp-image-2702\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click on \u201c<strong>Get Product<\/strong>\u201d to filter <strong>simple products<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/simple-products.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1701\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/simple-products.png\" alt=\"convert simple products to external\" class=\"wp-image-2703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/simple-products.png 1701w, https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/simple-products-1536x325.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1701px) 100vw, 1701px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can set other filters to choose the right products. If you need more help for filtering the products, we recommend you to check our tutorial about how to filter products in WordPress Bulk product editing plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Step 2: convert multi simple products To external<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To convert multi simple products to external you need to click on the \u201c<strong>Bulk Edit<\/strong>\u201d button and continue as following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open the \u201c<strong>Type<\/strong>\u201d tab in the bulk edit form&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the combo box in front of \u201c<strong>Product Type<\/strong>\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose \u201c<strong>External \/ Affiliate<\/strong>\u201d product from the list<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on \u201c<strong>Do bulk edit<\/strong>\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see in the below picture, All simple products we had filtered are now converted to external:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Product-Type-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1699\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Product-Type-1.png\" alt=\"convert multi simple products To external easily\" class=\"wp-image-2704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Product-Type-1.png 1699w, https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Product-Type-1-1536x404.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1699px) 100vw, 1699px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Convert multi simple products to external by bind edit<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bind editing is another way to convert multi simple products to external directly from the product table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To bind edit simple products you need to follow below actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add \u201c<strong>Product Type<\/strong>\u201d column from the \u201c<strong>Column Profile<\/strong>\u201d to the product table<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Filter the right products<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mark \u201c<strong>Bind Edit<\/strong>\u201d in the main page toolbar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the products you need to be converted in the table<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the combo box of \u201c<strong>Product Type<\/strong>\u201d column in front of one the products<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose \u201c<strong>External \/ Affiliate Product<\/strong>\u201d from the list<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Press enter button on keyboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converting multi simple products to external is very important when you have some products in your online store which must be purchased from another website or you need to resell them as an affiliate. To bulk edit those products and convert their type to external, there is a easy way in PBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plugin-usage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}