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How to Set Featured Images for Products in WooCommerce?

Learn how you can quickly set features images for WooCommerce products without going through each product. And also learn how to bulk set featured images.

How to set WordPress featured image for Products

Last updated on March 15, 2024

The first thing your customer observes about the products in your store is the picture of the product.

As a WooCommerce store owner, you would want to use the one that best describes your product! What is visible, sells!

Therefore, Smart Manager allows you to set and change the featured images of products as and when you want.

The best part? You can update the image directly, saving you the effort from going to each product and making the edits. This article will help you understand how you can change the featured image of individual and bulk products.

How to change the featured image of a specific product?

Let’s understand both the features step by step.

Smart Mnaager dashboard WooCommerce featured images
  1. Go to WordPress admin > Smart Manager > Products dashboard
  2. In the Featured Image column, click on the product image cell you want to change or add an image. If you can’t see the column, here’s how to enable it.
  3. You would see ‘WP Media Library’ opened up in a popup window. In Media Library, you can select from the options available. Or in Upload files, you can upload a new picture from your device and set it as the featured image.
  4. Click on ‘Save’.

The image will be uploaded and set for that product.

Repeat these steps as and when you want. This way, you can upload multiple images for products quickly using Smart Manager’s Excel-like spreadsheet view.

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How to set a featured image for bulk products?

In case you want to set a common image for a bunch of products, especially variations. Say you are selling a Red-colored T-shirt in seven sizes – XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL. Here, a common image for all these variations will be required.

  1. Go to WordPress admin > Smart Manager > Products dashboard
  2. In the Featured Image column, mark all the products/variations you want to change the image for.
  3. Click on Bulk Edit. It will open a slide over panel.
  4. Set featured image for bulk products
    Set featured image for bulk products
  5. Select Featured Image
  6. Select action as set to
  7. Click on the camera icon. You would see Media Library opened up in a popup window. In Media Library, you can select from the options available. Or in Upload files, you can upload a new picture from your device and set it as the featured image.
  8. Click on Update

That’s all. You can also apply search filters to locate specific products and then set features images for them.

How to find unattached media for any product/post?

It may happen that you may have hundreds of media images that may not be unattached to any product, page or post. These could be some featured images as well.

Using Smart Manager, you can find all these images at once.

  • Go to WordPress admin > Smart Manager > Media dashboard
  • Click on Advanced Search
  • Enter the condition Post Parent == 0
  • Click on Search

That’s it. All unattached media for the products/pages/posts will be in front of you.

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Winding up

With Smart Manager, you get all the products listed in one place, hence making your job smarter and saving you hours of your precious time.

Not just the products but you can also change the featured image of any page, product or blog post on your WooCommerce store with equally quick and simple steps.

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