Bossy Bulk Editor for WooCommerce

Stop editing your WooCommerce products one... at... a... time. You didn't open a shop to spend your afternoon clicking into products one by one — change a price, save, repeat 200 times. Bossy puts your entire catalog in a single spreadsheet-style screen: every product, every variation, right there. Search, filter, edit inline, bulk-apply, done. Open WooCommerce → Bossy Bulk Editor and take your afternoon back. Bulk edit everything WooCommerce makes you do by hand:

• Bulk edit prices — set a value, or raise/lower by percentage or amount, on regular or sale price
• Bulk edit stock, weight, dimensions, and shipping class across any selection
• Bulk edit categories and tags — add, set, or remove
• Inline-edit titles, SKUs, status, and short/long descriptions right in the grid
• Sequential SKU generator — prefix, start number, digit width, and separator
• Schedule a future publish date across selected products
• Edit every variation — expand any variable product and change price, SKU, stock, weight, and images without ever leaving the row

One wrong bulk apply used to mean fixing it by hand. Not anymore. Before every bulk write, Bossy saves a snapshot of your catalog. Made a mistake? One click puts it back — no developer, no database access, no panic, and no product cap on undo. This was the very first feature we built, because we've been the person re-fixing 200 rows by hand while the store was live. Never again. Built for shops where the photography IS the product. If you sell apparel, handmade goods, accessories, jewelry — anything where every variation has its own shot — WooCommerce's native variation image assignment is actively hostile. Open the product, scroll to the variation, click Edit, search the media library, find the image, save, go back. Times 80 variations. Times 30 products. Bossy handles this at catalog scale from a single screen. Expand any variable product in the grid and you see all its variations at once. Click a variation's main image zone or gallery slot and a focused modal opens — showing only the images already attached to that product. No searching the full media library. No scrolling past hundreds of unrelated uploads. Your product shots are right there. Click one; it's assigned. Done in two clicks instead of ten. Pro adds drag-and-drop on top of that. Same pool of product images, now draggable directly onto any variation. Use whichever interaction fits how you work. Genuinely free — not a trial. The WordPress.org version is the complete Bulk Editor. No product cap. No license key. No account. Nothing locked behind a 14-day timer. Everything above works the moment you activate it. We mean it. Built by a shop owner, for shop owners. Bossy was built by the maker behind ShesSoCraftyGoods — a real WooCommerce store with 200+ products and variations on everything. Every feature exists because running that shop demanded it and nothing on the market did it right. If something's missing, tell us in the support forum — we actually read it. Everything in this free plugin

• Paginated product grid with search; filters for category, type, status, and shipping class; column visibility controls
• Inline editing for titles, SKUs, status, regular price, sale price, weight, dimensions, stock, categories, tags, shipping class, and short/long descriptions
• Per-row save and Save All — nothing applies until you confirm
• Bulk actions: categories and tags (add/set/remove), price (set / % / amount), sale dates, scheduled publish date, package fields, stock quantity, sequential SKU scheme, and short-from-long description copy
• Inline variation editor — price, SKU, stock, weight, and images per variation, without leaving the grid
• Variation image picker — click any variation's main image zone or gallery slot to open a focused modal showing only that product's attached images; assign in two clicks, no media library required
• Undo snapshots for all supported bulk and write actions — no product cap, no undo limit
• Column visibility picker with saved state

A separate commercial package (hosted at bossyplugins.com) adds

• Find & Replace across key text fields
• CSV Export (filtered / selected / all, choose your field set)
• CSV Import with visual column mapping and Etsy/Shopify auto-detection
• Media Manager — manage every product gallery from one screen
• Gallery & Storefront Settings — four layout presets, thumbnail controls, per-variation galleries
• Inline Attributes editing in the grid
• Bulk Clone / Duplicate products
• Drag-and-drop variation image assignment — drag directly from the product image pool onto any variation's main zone or gallery slot; click-to-pick modal also available
• Customer personalization fields (engraving, custom text — carries through to the order)

Full details at https://bossyplugins.com/

1. Install and activate WooCommerce.
2. Install Bossy Bulk Editor for WooCommerce from the WordPress.org plugin directory, or upload the zip via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
3. Activate the plugin.
4. Go to WooCommerce → Bossy Bulk Editor (Bulk Editor tab). Use the Get Pro tab if you want details on the separate commercial package at https://bossyplugins.com/.

You need the edit_products capability to use the Bulk Editor grid.

1.10.15

• Get Pro tab and welcome screen now lead with Pro drag-and-drop variation images — pool to slot without leaving the grid.
• Clearer in-grid Pro upgrade notice on the variation image pool.

1.10.14

• Variation image picker (Free + Pro): click a variation main image zone or gallery slot to open a product-first modal showing only images attached to that product — assign in two clicks without searching the full media library.
• Variation image pool: click a pool thumbnail to assign it to the active gallery slot; empty galleries auto-open the picker on expand or click.
• Pro: drag-and-drop from the product image pool onto variation main zones and gallery slots remains available alongside click-to-pick.
• Bulk editor: clearing all categories on a row save now persists as Uncategorized instead of leaving stale terms.
• Packaging: exclude tmp-*.txt scratch files from release zips.

1.10.13

• Bulk tags: type-or-pick text field replaces the category-style dropdown; Add, Set, and Remove behave the same with snapshot undo.
• Columns picker: Select all toggle, Default preset (Img, Title, SKU, Type, Status, Reg Price, Sale Price, Stock, Save), and Save column hidden from the picker list (still visible in the grid).
• Sale Price included in the default visible column layout.

1.10.12

• Snapshot undo: restore path hardened across all supported bulk and row writes, with post-restore verification so reverted values match the snapshot.
• Snapshot undo: grid updates in place after restore for stock, package, dimensions, and variation fields — no reload needed to see the reverted state.
• Bulk stock: variable products with parent-level stock now apply and restore to the target quantity correctly.
• Bulk package and dimensions: bulk apply handlers fixed for hosted/admin POST compatibility.

1.10.11

• Bulk Sale dates: fixed a timezone defect where entered start/end dates were read as UTC instead of your store's local time, so sales often never activated on stores outside UTC.
• Bulk Sale dates: the active catalog price is now force-synced to the sale price the moment a product becomes on-sale.
• Same timezone fix applies to variation bulk sale dates and CSV-imported sale dates.

1.10.10

• Snapshot undo: in-place grid refresh after restore now also reverts categories, tags, and custom-input columns.
• E2E: undo bar dropdown smoke test timeout increased for hosted save latency.

1.10.9

• Snapshot undo: restoring now refreshes every edited column in the grid in place — title, status, weight, dimensions, manage-stock, shipping class, and stock revert instantly instead of only price/SKU.
• Snapshot undo: single-row and single-variation saves capture their snapshot in the same write request again (one fewer round-trip).

1.10.8

• Snapshot undo: bulk price and variation restores complete even when a SKU conflict is detected.
• Snapshot undo: multi-variation row saves group into one restore entry; restores reliably across more than three variation cards.
• Snapshot undo: undo bar warns when a large batch restore finishes only partially.
• Sequential SKU scheme: start number uses leading-digit semantics with trailing zero padding (e.g. start 9 + 4 digits → PREFIX-9000).
• Bulk SKU scheme: batch renumbering clears old SKUs first to avoid collision suffixes during apply.
• Bulk editor: fixes duplicate confirmation notices when converting a simple product to variable.

1.10.7

• Variation main image slot now shows assigned images when you first expand a variable product, with a visible + cue when the slot is empty.
• Variation main image and gallery assignments stay in sync after save, collapse/expand, and in-grid edits.
• Pro Variations tab: bulk row selection and apply controls work again when filtering or selecting variations.
• Clearer on-screen feedback when a variation gallery save fails from the grid.

1.10.6

• Variation cards now load image state from variation-native media values, preventing parent featured-image inheritance from appearing as variation gallery content.
• Adds a new Clear all variation images action in the expanded variation panel toolbar (per product row).
• Clear action wipes variation main image plus variation gallery assignments without touching parent product gallery media.

1.10.5

• Bulk actions now keep edits in place instead of forcing a grid reload, including sort-aware SKU updates while SKU ascending/descending filters are active.
• Improves variation and gallery workflow reliability across modern WooCommerce themes.
• Refines undo and bulk-edit behavior for safer day-to-day catalog updates.

1.10.4

• Adds a Settings toggle to enable Bossy diagnostics logging without code edits.
• Introduces a shared structured logger for key runtime paths (schedule publish, row save, undo restore).
• Logging can write to debug.log when enabled and supports optional Woo logger forwarding via filter.

1.10.3

• Scheduled publish — minute-level fix: hardened datetime handling so scheduling a product in the current minute no longer fails as "not in the future."
• Scheduled publish — cron reliability: explicitly re-queues the core publish_future_post event for selected products, improving reliability on cron-driven hosts.
• Admin watchdog: adds a Bossy warning when scheduled products are overdue (stuck in future status), with actionable cron guidance.

1.10.2

• SKU sort with blanks: sorting the grid by SKU now keeps products with blank or missing SKUs in the list, with blanks appearing first on ascending sort.
• Stock column accuracy: stock quantity now populates from edit context and stored metadata even when stock tracking is disabled on a product.
• Variation card dedup: variation card headers no longer display duplicate gallery thumbnails.
• Snapshot restore fix: undo correctly handles sequential SKU reassignments across rows during restoration.
• Undo grouping: parent and variation saves are now grouped into a single undo entry rather than one entry per field.

1.10.1

• SKU scheme right-padding: the sequential SKU scheme now right-pads the start number to match the specified digit width.
• SKU preview consistency: the SKU scheme preview in the bulk editor matches server apply logic exactly.

1.10.0

• WordPress.org free package compliance: no licensing SDK bundled, no license or account required, and no commercial feature code shipped in the directory build.
• Free admin UI is Bulk Editor plus a Get Pro tab that links to the separate commercial package at bossyplugins.com (Import, Media Manager, Gallery Settings, Inline Attributes, and related Pro tools live only in that package).
• Pro-only modules are packaged separately and stripped from the wordpress.org build during release (not license-gated in the free zip).
• Packaging and activation hardening for the org free build, including PHP syntax validation during release staging.

1.9.0

• WordPress.org submission line with separate packaging trees for the free directory build and the commercial Pro plugin sold at bossyplugins.com.
• Continued split between fully functional free Bulk Editor features and Pro-only tools delivered outside wordpress.org.

1.8.19

• Activation hardening, safer request sanitization, and packaging cleanup for wordpress.org submission compliance.
• Plugin-row and in-plugin links to optional commercial package details (no locked local features in the wordpress.org package).

1.8.18

• Bulk editor selection state resets correctly after successful bulk actions without a page refresh.
• Snapshot restore applies best-effort per item — avoids full-batch aborts when individual SKU values conflict.
• Snapshot action labels corrected for bulk price apply and bulk sale dates apply.
• Snapshot dropdown refreshes immediately after mutating actions including variation saves and bulk operations.
• Variable product package fields (weight and dimensions) now apply correctly to parent product.
• Weight, length, width, and height normalized to 2 decimal places across row edits and bulk package actions.
• Variation row active visual treatment improved on the Vars toggle button.
• Control deck layout polish — tightened card spacing and aligned button placement.

1.8.17

• Licensing integration aligned with admin redirect normalization.

1.8.16

• Admin connect redirect URLs preserve error query arguments in wp-admin.

1.8.15

• Licensing UX cleanup and admin flow refinements.

1.8.14

• Admin tab behavior and capability checks improved.

1.8.13

• Variation image assignment workflow improvements.

1.8.12

• Opt-in redirects stay under wp-admin after connect/skip.

1.8.11

• Licensing SDK bundle refresh (2.13.1).

1.8.10

• Safer bootstrap when optional config file is missing.

1.8.0

• Initial licensing integration and release hardening.