{"id":1177,"date":"2021-05-12T11:44:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2024-04-14T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:39:09","slug":"how-to-attach-change-product-variation-in-woocommerce-bulk-product-editing-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/how-to-attach-change-product-variation-in-woocommerce-bulk-product-editing-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Attach \/ Change product variation in Woocommerce bulk product editing plugin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Attach \/ change product variation in <a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/plugins\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Woocommerce bulk product editing plugin<\/a> can help you to add any attributes to your products in a few seconds. This option can save your time by attaching any attributes to your custom products without any need to open the product pages one by one in Woocommerce.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can attach any variation to as many products as you filtered at the same time in our plugin in two ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>By using variation bulk edit form\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By bind edit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We are going to describe both methods in this tutorial, so, stay with us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Attach \/ change product variation by using variation bulk edit form&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Attach \/ change product variation by using variation \u201c<strong>bulk edit<\/strong>\u201d form is possible by following the below steps in our plugin:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to <strong>WordPress dashboard<\/strong> > <strong>Pro bulk bundle<\/strong> ><strong> Woo products<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Filter custom products by using \u201c<strong>Filter Form<\/strong>\u201d or \u201d<strong>Quick Search<\/strong>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on \u201c<strong>Variations<\/strong>\u201d button<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to \u201c<strong>Attach \/ Change Variation<\/strong>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose your preferred attributes\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Attach those attributes to your products by clicking on Attaching\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, we searched the products that their titles include \u201cshirt&#8221; by using \u201c<strong>Quick Search<\/strong>\u201d fields as following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Type \u201c<strong>Shirt<\/strong>\u201d in the text box\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose \u201c<strong>Title<\/strong>\u201d from the type combo box<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select \u201c<strong>Like<\/strong>\u201d from condition box\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on filter icon<\/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.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1701\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/filter.png\" alt=\"Attach \/ change product variation by using variation bulk edit\" class=\"wp-image-2760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/filter.png 1701w, https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/filter-1536x520.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1701px) 100vw, 1701px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After selecting all filtered products by marking checkbox next to ID, we clicked on \u201c<strong>Variation<\/strong>\u201d button, to see the Variation bulk edit form:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-Variation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-Variation.jpg\" alt=\"Variation in Woocommerce bulk product editing plugin\" class=\"wp-image-1184\" style=\"width:1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201c<strong>Attach\/change Variation<\/strong>\u201d tab, you can add any variation that you have already assigned to the WordPress in two ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By \u201cSelect Attributes\u201d field<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>By clicking on the box under Select Attribute field, a list of all variations assigned to the products in the Woocommerce will be displayed. So, you can choose any of them to be attached to the custom products.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, we selected color in the below picture:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-Select-Attributes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-Select-Attributes.jpg\" alt=\"we selected color in the picture\" class=\"wp-image-1186\" style=\"width:1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As soon as adding a new variation,&nbsp; a combo box will appear including all Attributes related to that variation which enables you to choose one of them from the list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-Attributes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-Attributes.jpg\" alt=\"With a new change, a list of related features will appear\" class=\"wp-image-1190\" style=\"width:1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this tutorial, we selected \u201c<strong>Blue<\/strong>\u201d from the drop down list as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-drop-down-list.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-drop-down-list.jpg\" alt=\"we selected \u201cBlue\u201d from the drop down list\" class=\"wp-image-1192\" style=\"width:1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, by clicking on \u201c<strong>Attaching<\/strong>\u201d, this attribute will be added to the product variation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By \u201cvariable product Id\u201d field<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This field will help you to get the variations of a specific product and attach it to the filtered products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-variable-product-Id.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-variable-product-Id.jpg\" alt=\"Modify a specific product and connect to filtered products\" class=\"wp-image-1194\" style=\"width:1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, we entered \u201c2238\u201d as product ID in the related text box and clicked on \u201c<strong>Get variations<\/strong>\u201d:<\/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\/Get-variations-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Get-variations-1.jpg\" alt=\"entered \u201c2238\u201d as product ID and clicked on \u201cGet variations\u201d\" class=\"wp-image-2761\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As shown in the below picture,&nbsp; all the Attributes related to this product are listed and we are able to choose any of them, to be assigned to our filtered products by clicking on \u201c<strong>Attaching<\/strong>\u201d:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-all-Attributes-related.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/23-all-Attributes-related.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1199\" style=\"width:1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As we expected, all those attributes that we selected were attached to our product variations:\u00a0<\/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-variations-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1699\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/product-variations-1.png\" alt=\"search for variation product in WooCommerce bulk product editing\" class=\"wp-image-2762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/product-variations-1.png 1699w, https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/product-variations-1-1536x519.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1699px) 100vw, 1699px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Attach \/ change product variation by using variation bulk edit form<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As we severally mentioned in the previous tutorial, to use bind edit in our plugin you need to add the proper columns to the product table.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we are going to attach variations to our product, adding the columns related to those attributes are necessary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can easily add any attribute column to your products table by getting help from how to add new columns to the product table. As we did for adding color column to our table in this tutorial:\u00a0<\/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\/bind-edit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/bind-edit.png\" alt=\"attach and change variation in WooCommerce bulk product editing\" class=\"wp-image-2763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/bind-edit.png 1700w, https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/bind-edit-1536x520.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now to use \u201c<strong>bind edit<\/strong>\u201d for attaching new attributes to the product, you need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Search custom products as we did for searching \u201cShirt\u201d in the previous step\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mark all custom products\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mark \u201c<strong>bind edit<\/strong>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on \u201cVariation\u201d column of one of the products<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mark any attributes that you need to be assigned to the custom products\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on \u201c<strong>Apply Changes<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As shown below, we marked \u201cGrey, green, red and yellow\u201d:<\/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\/Apply-Changes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1698\" height=\"745\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Apply-Changes.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Apply-Changes.png 1698w, https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/Apply-Changes-1536x674.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1698px) 100vw, 1698px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And by clicking on \u201c<strong>Apply changes<\/strong>\u201d, those attributes were attached to our product variations:&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attach \/ change product variation in Woocommerce bulk product editing plugin can help you to add any attributes to your products in a few seconds. 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