{"id":1337,"date":"2021-05-12T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:34:43","slug":"what-is-bind-edit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/what-is-bind-edit\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the bind edit in VBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Variations plugin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bind edit is a useful option of <a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/plugins\/woocommerce-variations-bulk-edit\/?utm_source=kb&amp;utm_content=bind-edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Variations &#8211; plugin<\/a> that lets you apply some same changes at the same time. You can select some products, change one of them and apply this change to all other products at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marking the checkbox next to \u201c<strong>Bind Edit<\/strong>\u201d on the main page of our plugin enables you to change one of the features of a product in the product table and extend it to other products that you have selected in the product table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make it clear, let\u2019s make an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bind edit WooCommerce products fields<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To start the bind editing products, you can filter those products that you need to change some of their features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this tutorial, we are going to make some changes to our new products. So, we filter the products that their \u201c<strong>Title<\/strong>\u201d includes \u201c<strong>New<\/strong>\u201d, as you can see in the below picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-product-title.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-product-title.jpg\" alt=\"product title in Woocommerce bulk edit plugin\" class=\"wp-image-1340\" style=\"width:1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-product.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-product-e1688889689874.jpg\" alt=\"editing product in woocommerce bulk product editing\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To use the bind edit option, we have to select some of the products. So, we marked the first 5 products and then active bind edit by click on &#8220;<strong>Bind Edit<\/strong>&#8221; button on the plugin toolbar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example: <\/strong>To see how \u201c<strong>Bind Edit<\/strong>\u201d can help us, we tried to change the title of the first product in the list and rename it as \u201cSummer Collection\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By pressing the \u201c<strong>Enter<\/strong>\u201d key on the keyboard, the result is exactly as we expected. As shown below, the titles of all 5 products have been changed to \u201c<strong>Summer Collection<\/strong>\u201d while the other titles have remained unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/30-bind-edit-titles.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/30-bind-edit-titles.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2986\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-result.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-result-e1688890003129.jpg\" alt=\"edit multiple-products in woocommerce bulk product editing\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To get you more familiar with this option, we want to bind edit \u201c<strong>Product type<\/strong>\u201d as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make this change, at first we select 3 products by marking their ID checkboxes. Then we marked \u201c<strong>Bind Edit<\/strong>\u201d and choose \u201c<strong>Variable Product<\/strong>\u201d from the drop down list of the first product.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press enter to change the \u201c<strong>Product Type<\/strong>\u201d of all selected products simultaneously:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/30-bind-edit-product-type.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/30-bind-edit-product-type.png\" alt=\"edit multiple-product via bind edit in woocommerce bulk product editing\" class=\"wp-image-2987\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-Variable-Product.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-Variable-Product-e1688890080203.jpg\" alt=\"display products in the product table for bind editing\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can only bind edit the features of products displaying in the product table, you have to add that feature as a column to the product table before edit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding new columns is not a difficult task in our plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/manage-product-columns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to manage product table columns in VBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Variations &#8211; plugin?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In another example, let\u2019s try to select some products and change the \u201c<strong>Regular Price<\/strong>\u201d of one of them after marking \u201c<strong>Bind Edit<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press on enter to our plugin change the regular price of those selected products:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/30-bind-edit-regular-price.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/30-bind-edit-regular-price-1024x456.png\" alt=\"change regular price for some products at same time\" class=\"wp-image-2985\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-result-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/30-result-1-e1688890139933.jpg\" alt=\"bind editing changes products at same time in woocommerce bulk product editing\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>The features which are not editable will remain unchanged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, in the above, some products are selected from variable products whose price is not editable. So, despite us selecting them to bind edit their regular price, their features remain unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bind edit is a useful option of VBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Variations &#8211; plugin that lets you apply some same changes at the same time. You can select some products, change one of them and apply this change to all other products at the same time. 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