Multi Vendor product import challenge

Maybe I am stupid, but please help me understand something:

We all know the WordPress was originally designed to cater for the Blogger that wanted an easy way to dynamically change content on his website. Because of that, it did not really matter where and how this data was stored – normally just in the uploads folder / year / month.

Now this made sense since you as the owner of the website were the only person adding, removing, and changing content. But things have changed, and now we have Woocommerce, Multi-vendors, and downloadable products.

Let me create a MAKE BELIEVE scenario to better explain the situation.

I have a multi-vendor site with 5 vendors (Vendor A, Vendor B …) Each vendor has 500 products, and some of the products may be a downloadable product like an e-book or music.

When the products are uploaded onto the system, they will ultimately resides somewhere in the uploads folder (depending on the year and month). If it is a product like jewelry for instance, the only file in the uploads folder will be an image of the product. But if the product was a downloadable product there will be an image of the product + a zip file.

With this in mind – The following questions.

1. When the administrator of the site wants to export the products of Vendor A to a csv file, he can do so no problem, but when he wants to import that on a new domain he will import all the info and images of the products – But the downloadable zip file will not be imported.

So how does he go about to import the zip file associated with the product as well, since it would be virtually impossible to go onto the Cpanel and only copy a few zip files to the new domain. I say virtually, because you can, but depending on the amount of files, you will be busy for a very long time.

2. Am I approaching this task incorrectly.

3. Am I missing a plugin that will help me out in this regard.

One may ask why do you want to export a vendors product to a new domain / Are you as the admin trying to steal a vendors products ?
The answer is no – Vendor A wants his products to be available on the new system but they do not want to go through the whole process of creating and uploading products.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Yui. Reason: moved to fixing wordpress