{"id":806,"date":"2021-05-11T13:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T13:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/?p=806"},"modified":"2024-04-16T06:35:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:35:25","slug":"bulk-edit-product-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-product-editing\/bulk-edit-product-category\/","title":{"rendered":"How to bulk edit WooCommerce product categories?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Bulk edit WooCommerce product category is a useful option designed in the Woocommerce Bulk Product Editing Plugin<\/a> to help store managers manage their products categories in the online store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WooCommerce bulk edit categories is simply possible from the “Bulk Edit<\/strong>” Form. However, before trying this option, we recommend you to filter the products you need to change their categories as we described in \u201cHow to filter products on WooCommerce bulk product editing?<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example we choose a specific range for Width <\/strong>and Length<\/strong> in the \u201cshipping<\/strong>\u201d tab of Filter Form<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is also important to see how your bulk edit is going to change the values. So, you can select the related columns to be displayed in the product table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As it was explained in \u201cHow to save and load column profiles on Woocommerce bulk product editing plugin?<\/a>\u201d , we chose \u201cWidth<\/strong>\u201d, \u201cLength<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cProduct Category<\/strong>\u201d in the Column Profile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the below picture, you can see that our product table consists of our filtered products with the selected columns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, everything is ready to bulk edit the product category. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n WooCommerce bulk edit product categories is possible by following below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Click on \u201cBulk Edit<\/strong>\u201d at the main page to open \u201cBulk Edit Form<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Go to \u201cCategories \/Tags\/Taxonomies<\/strong>\u201d tab in the form<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you can see in the below table there are two main boxes in front of Category option and we are going to see how you can take advantage of them to bulk edit product table:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first box in front of Category field includes three conditions as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n By clicking on the second box, you can see all of the categories you have assigned to your WooCommerce products and you are able to select\u00a0 one or more from the dropdown list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note:<\/strong> If you add any categories to the product page of Woocommerce, it will be added automatically to this box and you are able to select among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example we wanted to add clothing <\/strong>to the existing product categories. So, we selected Append <\/strong>from condition box and chose \u201cClothing<\/strong>\u201d category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After clicking on \u201cDo Bulk Edit<\/strong>\u201d, the result is as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you can see \u201cclothing\u201d was added to our product categories<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, we decided to reverse our decision for the first two products, so for WooCommerce bulk remove category, we:<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we expected, Clothing <\/strong>was deleted from the category column of the first two products:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then we tried to replace categories of the first two products by \u201cClothing<\/strong>\u201d. We followed below steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>
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How to bulk edit WooCommerce product categories at the same time?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Some examples of bulk edit WooCommerce product categories<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Append or add WooCommerce product categories<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Delete or remove WooCommerce product categories<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Replace WooCommerce product categories<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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