How to Bulk Assign/Remove WooCommerce Product Categories and Sub-categories?

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1. How can you bulk assign product categories with Smart Manager?

2. What if you want to edit product fields based on categories?

After adding products to your WooCommerce store, you can organize them better by assigning categories/sub-categories to them.

Using default WooCommerce, assigning categories to hundreds and thousands of products is a nightmare. Because you need to go to each product and do it.

But with Smart Manager, you can assign or remove categories to hundreds of products listed on your store in bulk within minutes.

Let’s understand it step by step.

How can you bulk assign product categories with Smart Manager?

Go to WordPress admin > Smart Manager
Select the post type “Products” from the drop down
Select the products you want to edit.
Click on ‘Bulk edit’.
Select ‘Categories’ in the first drop-down. You can even select ‘Categories: {Parent Category Name}‘ in the first drop down which would limit the categories list to only its child categories.
Select action as ‘set to’, ‘add to’ or ‘remove from’ in the second drop-down as per your intention of the edit.
Note – Choosing ‘set to’ action would completely replace the categories already assigned to the selected product with the one that is selected.
Select the category in the third drop-down list.
Click on ‘Update’.

As per your action, the selected products will be assigned or removed from the chosen categories.

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This was about assigning/removing one or more products to/from one /more categories.

What if you want to edit product fields based on categories?

For example, you want to change the pricing of all clothing items.

In that case, use the ‘Advanced Search‘ feature of Smart Manager.

Following are the steps to do that:

Go to WordPress admin > Smart Manager
Select the post type “Products” from the drop down
Toggle the Advance Search option on the top to turn it on
Select ‘Category’ in the first drop-down list
Select the category ‘Clothing’ in the last drop-down list
Click on ‘Search’

You will have the product list in front of you. You can now make changes in the sale price, stock status and other stock fields by using the same steps given for the bulk edit category with Smart Manager.

You can even update all the products in the search result simply by checking the ‘Header Checkbox’ and then selecting ‘All items in the search result’ in the bulk edit window.

That’s all.

Ending notes

Easy & simple steps to follow, right?

That’s what Smart Manager stands for. To make tasks regarding WooCommerce stock management simple and quick. So that you don’t have to spend hours and hours like your fellow store owners.