slug is not sanitized when creating a product programatically

By default, WooCommerce automatically generates the slug based on the product name (post_title) when a product is saved or updated. However, when creating products programmatically in a loop, the slug generation process might not be triggered automatically.

To ensure that the slugs are generated correctly for your products, you can manually update the slugs using the wp_update_post() function after creating each product. Here’s an example of how you can modify your code to include the slug update:

$product_name = 'PRODUCT NAME';
$product = new \WC_Product_Simple();
$product->set_name($product_name);
$product->set_sku($product_sku);
// ... additional product setup code ...

// Save the product
$product_id = $product->save();

// Generate the slug for the product
$slug = sanitize_title($product_name);

// Update the product post with the generated slug
wp_update_post(array(
  'ID' => $product_id,
  'post_name' => $slug,
));

In the code above, after creating each product using $product->save(), we generate the slug using sanitize_title() based on the product name. Then, we use wp_update_post() to update the product post with the generated slug.

By including these additional steps in your loop, you should be able to ensure that the slugs are generated correctly for each product you create programmatically.

Thanks
Ahir Hemant