StevenWoolston

I found that you can do this via the built-in import facility.

Export all your variations to give you a csv of all variations (you could filter the export to reduce the size of the resulting csv).

Then find the variations you want to remove and paste into a separate spreadsheet and save as csv. Then delete the value in the parent column for all variations in your new csv.

Then import that new csv and make sure you select the checkbox option to update existing variations on the screen where you select the csv upload. Map your columns and import.

This removes the variation from the parent variable product.

Bump. I found myself looking for this option too. I support this as a good idea.

Should there always be records with _ew-backup location values in postmeta for media attachments? There is something going on with my db and I’m sure it’s related to the initial issue I had with environment syncing. I was able to restore originals successfully but when I try to re-apply the watermark I get an exception. I checked the postmeta table and now I don’t have records with _ew-backup any more. Weirdly enough, the watermark IS applied even though I get the exception. So I can apply the watermark if I do ‘Bulk Select’ and select one at a time (which is very labour intensive). Thoughts?

I have to apologise for this because I don’t think it’s actually an issue. I had problems doing the restore originally and thought it was FW related but I think the actual issue was to do with the file path in the postmeta table for the media items. I raised another topic related to this and I think THAT was the reason for the exception. I mentioned in that other topic that I migrate data between different environments with different physical media locations. So when the database is updated in the new site, the path to the _ew-backup folder is wrong. I fixed the path and all works ok.

Once again, apologies for the red herring.

I find it best to do watermarking while using Chrome’s Incognito mode. Then there is no caching issues and I can easily see which images have been applied and stop double-applying.

You could create a second watermark which is an image that repeats the text. Then you have a default watermark and a second one for different use cases.

Do you know which image WP is showing for the zoom? You should be able to right-click the image and you can tell which variation it is from the name eg mypinkboots-100×100.jpg.

I am sure an exception could be applied to the firewall rules but that kind of defeats the purpose.

The exception is was getting was very unhelpful. It was something like ‘could not restore {file name}’ and then appended ‘[Object Object]’.

I can’t imagine that you could circumvent the firewall. Are you using the WP core methods to read/write to the uploads folder? I haven’t checked the code.

No problems. I find the plugin very useful so I’m happy to contribute back.

You can do this from the Media Library. Make sure you’re in Grid view mode, then there should be a bulk select button. Click that, then select the image you want to watermark. You can select one or many images using this method.

I’m also interested in this functionality.

Thanks
Steven