How to update WooCommerce products and stock without WordPress admin

Here is how to do it

1. 1

   Find what needs work

   Open Products and click Filters. Under Stock Status, choose In Stock, Out of Stock, On Backorder or Low Stock, and each one shows how many products it has. You can add category, type, brand, tag and date as well.

   Tomas starts with Out of Stock.

   

2. 2

   Change the price or the details

   Open the menu at the end of a product row and click Edit. The name, descriptions, images and categories are all on one page, and the price is under the product data below them. When you are done, click Update Product. You can see that button in the next step.

   

3. 3

   Update the stock

   Further down the same page, click Inventory. Turn on Manage Stock and type the Stock Quantity. You can also set backorders here, and limit a product to one per order. Then click Update Product.

   Tomas works down his delivery note, one product at a time.

   

4. 4

   Add new products

   Click Add Product to make one by hand. It handles simple and variable products, with their categories, tags, brands and attributes. To add many at once, open the product form, click Bulk Upload and send a CSV file. The file needs at least name and regular_price, and there is a sample to download.

   

5. 5

   Deal with reviews and exports

   Under Products, open Reviews. The menu at the end of a row lets you approve a review, reply to it, mark it as spam or trash it. In the product list, Export gives you a CSV of all your products or just the ones you ticked.