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