Bulk update product categories

Administrator run once code snippet. Loops through all product categories and updates a meta field.

add_action( 'admin_notices', function() {

	// Get Product Categories
	$args = [
		'orderby' => 'name',
		'order' => 'asc',
		'hide_empty' => true,
	];
	$product_categories = get_terms( 'product_cat', $args );

	// Loop Product Categories
	foreach( $product_categories as $term ) {

		// Get Meta Value
		$meta_value = get_term_meta(
			$term->term_id, 'meta_key_here', true
		);

		// Update Meta Value
		if( ! $meta_value ) {
			update_term_meta(
				$term->term_id,
				'meta_key_here',
				'meta_value_here'
			);
		}

		// Ticker
		echo '.';

	}

} );

Instructions for Bulk update product categories

  1. Log into a staging or locally hosted clone of your site.
  2. Install and activate Code Snippets plugin.
  3. WP Admin > Snippets > Add New
  4. Copy and paste the code from the section above.
  5. Check to ensure formatting came over properly.
  6. Customize the code as desired.
  7. Add a meaningful title.
  8. Select whether to run on front-end or back-end (or both).
  9. Click “Save and Activate”.
  10. Test your site to ensure it works.
  11. Disable if any problems, or recover.
  12. Repeat for live environment.

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License

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