deckermax16188

Thank you both very much for your reply!

I think I now see the issue, both answers make absolute sense however @xue28 answer already solves the problem.

Thanks again

Sorry to bug you here James, but unfortunately it still isn’t clear.

When importing a post there is a field to enable post slug as you can see in this screenshot:

importwp post fields

But when importing a product then I don’t see such thing as post_name or slug field:

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Or am I missing something here?

Thanks for you help, much appreciated

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by deckermax16188.

Hi James,

thanks for the quick reply.

But I’m not quite sure if it answers my question. I know that the imported product title will alter the slug, but is it possible to import/set the product URL directly?

I’m asking because my import file has a unique SKU for each article which is already formatted as a slug/URL, whereby the title it not unique, so if possible I would like to set this as slug/URL directly.

Thanks in advance,

Max

Ok awesome, thanks.

I didn’t know I could assign letters and symbols as SKU as well (thought it’d have to be numbers only).

The only thing left now is that when I import 40 products from a list, ImportWP creates 31 new records and updates 9, although there are 0 pre-existing products in woocommerce and also 0 in the trash bin. I will create a video for this shortly.

Thank you very much for your support here James, it really helps a lot!

Kind regards,
Max

Thank you for the quick reply. Unfortunately I didn’t get a notification.

I will take a look into the guide you provided.

Regarding your questions:
It seems that some records that have been imported before, then deleted and then reimported again are revived from the trash bin and updated. How is this handled? Can I restrict ImportWP from “reviving” old records from the bin? Does it even do that?

And the other problem I have is that when I import let’s say 40 products, in the same import 30 records are being created and 10 are being updated. I tested this and it looks like ImportWP updates it’s own records while importing them, so I end up with only 30 products in the end. How can I prevent this?

Thank you.

If it’s helpful I can create a screencast showing this.