Duplicate sku’s

  • Resolved vitaming01

    (@vitaming01)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    I inherited a web site and am doing SEO on it. For products, whoever designed it created identical products under different categories, rather than create one and ‘point’ it to multiple categories from the Edit Product page.

    Is there a quick and dirty way to point the same product to different categories instead of having to go into each product to edit them? There are 12,000 products on this site, though with all the duplicates, I’m sure there are far fewer products with UNIQUE sku’s. Or perhaps a way of running a report that showed the categories for each duplicated sku? That’d at least tell me where they are and show me where to point a single instance of that sku. And I’m assuming that once I’ve done that, I’d want to delete all of the duplicates?

    Or can I just leave the duplicates where they’re at (they’re currently all orange for Readability and gray for SEO Analysis, as nothing’s been done with them – no focus keyword, SEO title, or meta description, just a unique slug).

    Thanks.

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  • Phil

    (@fullysupportedphil)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Is there a quick and dirty way to point the same product to different categories instead of having to go into each product to edit them?

    You can do this with a CSV import. You can do all your edits (specifying which categories a product belongs to) on a CSV file and then upload that to update the existing products.

    Or you could do this with API calls, writing that (if you are a developer) would take just as long/longer as doing a csv import.

    Or perhaps a way of running a report that showed the categories for each duplicated sku?

    WooCommerce does not allow duplicate SKUs by default. They may have used a customization or third-party plugin to allow that. Because this isn’t possible by default, there isn’t a specific report for showing duplicate SKUs. You can export your products then sort the CSV to show duplicates.

    Plugin Support mouli a11n

    (@mouli)

    It’s been a while since we heard from you, so I’m marking this thread resolved. Hopefully, you’ve been able to resolve this, but if you haven’t, please open up a new topic and we’ll be happy to help out.

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