{"id":703,"date":"2021-05-30T14:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/?p=703"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:34:17","slug":"bulk-edit-multi-product-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/bulk-edit-multi-product-description\/","title":{"rendered":"How to bulk edit multi product description\/short description in VBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Variations &#8211; plugin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>bulk edit product description is simply possible by bulk editing description or short description in the bulk form of <a href=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/plugins\/woocommerce-variations-bulk-edit\/?utm_source=kb&amp;utm_content=bulk-edit-desc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Variations &#8211; plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this tutorial, we want to show you how to bulk edit product short description and description in WooCommerce at the same time by making an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our goal is to show the customers that all of our published products are on sale by adding \u201cOff\u201d to their short description and also we want to add their \u201cID\u201d at the end of each description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this, we filtered published product from the filter form as below:<\/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\/filter-products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to filter products in VBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Variations &#8211; plugin?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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\/filter-published-status-products.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1072\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/filter-published-status-products.png\" alt=\"Filter published status products\" class=\"wp-image-2928\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we set a new preset named \u201c<strong>Product Description<\/strong>\u201d by adding &#8220;<strong>Description<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>Short Description<\/strong>&#8221; to be display in the product table.<\/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>By selecting this column profile, the product table including description and short description is displayed at the main page. You are able to change the content of each product by clicking On \u201c<strong>Content<\/strong>\u201d button appeared in each column.<\/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\/click-on-edit-content-button.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1196\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/click-on-edit-content-button.png\" alt=\"Click on edit content button\" class=\"wp-image-2927\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see the description of the first product in the below picture and you can refer to it later to see how it will be changed after doing bulk edit.<\/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\/05-content-edit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-content-edit.jpg\" alt=\"bulk edit product content in woocomemrce bulk products editing plugin\" class=\"wp-image-711\" style=\"width:1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bulk edit multi product description\/short description<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To bulk edit multi product description we filtered before, you need to select desired products and then click on \u201c<strong>Bulk Edit<\/strong>\u201d button at the main page and open the bulk edit form.<\/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\/select-product-and-click-bulk-edit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation-editing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/select-product-and-click-bulk-edit.png\" alt=\"select product and click bulk edit\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the \u201c<strong>General Tab<\/strong>\u201d of this form, both \u201c<strong>Description<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>Short Description<\/strong>\u201d are available to be bulk edit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As shown in the below picture, you can set the conditions of bulk editing from the dropdown list of the first box including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Append:<\/strong> Your value will be added to the beginning of the description.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Prepend: <\/strong>Your value will be added to the end of the description.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>New:<\/strong> A new description will be replaced with all of the filtered \/ selected products.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Delete:<\/strong> The description of the filtered \/ selected products will be deleted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Replace:<\/strong> some part of the description will be replaced by your preferred value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/05-description.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-description.jpg\" alt=\"append text to product description using woocommerce bulk edit plugin\" class=\"wp-image-716\" style=\"width:1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You have also access to some variable values in the dropdown list of the third box to set them as your preferred value to be added to the description exactly according to the condition you selected from the first box, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ID<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SKU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Menu Order<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parent ID<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Parent Title<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parent SKU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regular Price<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sale Price<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/05-description-variable-values.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-description-variable-values.jpg\" alt=\"add some variable value to product description \" class=\"wp-image-717\" style=\"width:1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this tutorial, as we mentioned at the beginning we are going to make two changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Append \u201cID\u201d to the WooCommerce product description<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulk edit multi product description of filtered product by adding ID to the end of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this, we simply select \u201c<strong>Append<\/strong>\u201d as our condition and choose \u201c<strong>ID<\/strong>\u201d as our value for the description field.<\/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\/05-append-and-id-value.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-append-and-id-value.jpg\" alt=\"Append ID to the Product Description\" class=\"wp-image-719\" style=\"width:1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prepend \u201cOFF\u201d to the WooCommerce product description<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Add \u201c<strong>Off!<\/strong>\u201d to the beginning of the short description of filtered products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This change is also possible by selecting \u201c<strong>Prepend<\/strong>\u201d from the condition box and typing \u201c<strong>OFF!<\/strong>\u201d in the short description text box.<\/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\/05-short-description-text-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"38\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-short-description-text-box.jpg\" alt=\"Prepend some text to the Product Description in woocommerce bulk product editing plugin\" class=\"wp-image-720\" style=\"width:557px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no need to do anything more, just click on \u201c<strong>Do Bulk Edit<\/strong>\u201d and see how the plugin can magically change multi product description and short description.<\/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\/05-select-text.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-select-text.jpg\" alt=\"change multi product description and short description\" class=\"wp-image-721\" style=\"width:1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To get more familiar with the options for bulk edit product description in this plugin, we are going to make some other examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Set a \u201cNew\u201d value for product description<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We select \u201c<strong>tilte<\/strong>\u201d , \u201c<strong>SKU<\/strong>\u201d , \u201c<strong>Regular Price<\/strong>\u201d 10% OFF to be replace by all of the product description as below:<\/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\/05-regular-price.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-regular-price.jpg\" alt=\"set a new value for product description\" class=\"wp-image-722\" style=\"width:552px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and you can see the result as below by clicking on <strong>Do Bulk Edit<\/strong> button.<\/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\/05-import-text.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-import-text.jpg\" alt=\"final results of changing product description\" class=\"wp-image-725\" style=\"width:1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>You are able to select as many variables as you want to replace the product description. It means that you can add more than one variation from the variation dropdown list, however, for the short description, you have to just select one of the variables. For example, if you choose \u201cSKU\u201d to display in the short description, you are not allowed to select another item such as ID or etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Delete some part of product description<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To delete some part of product description, for example \u201c<strong>Tilte<\/strong>\u201d, you have to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select \u201c<strong>Delete<\/strong>\u201d from condition box.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose \u201c<strong>Title<\/strong>\u201d from dropdown list of variation box.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on &#8220;<strong>Do Bulk Edit<\/strong>&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/05-choose-title-from-list.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-choose-title-from-list.jpg\" alt=\"Delete some part of Product Description\" class=\"wp-image-726\" style=\"width:555px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and the final result will be:<\/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\/05-deleted-title.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-deleted-title.jpg\" alt=\"deleted variable text from product description in woocomemrce bulk edit plugin\" class=\"wp-image-728\" style=\"width:1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see in the above picture, the \u201ctitle\u201d has been deleted from the product description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Replace some part of product description<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As we are going to replace \u201cSKU\u201d in the product description by \u201cTitle\u201d, we have to choose the below conditions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Replace : SKU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Same Case: Title<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/05-replace-description.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-replace-description.jpg\" alt=\"replace some part of product description in bulk edit product plugin\" class=\"wp-image-732\" style=\"width:555px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Which makes our product descriptions like below:<\/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\/05-content-edit-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/ithemelandco.com\/docs\/woocommerce-bulk-variation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/05-content-edit-1.jpg\" alt=\"content edit\" class=\"wp-image-734\" style=\"width:1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the conditions related to the short description are exactly the same as description, you can do the same for bulk editing short description of your products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bulk edit product description is simply possible by bulk editing description or short description in the bulk form of VBULKiT &#8211; Bulk Edit WooCommerce Variations &#8211; plugin. 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