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. Every image assignment is snapshot-backed, so undo works here too. Need to move faster across a whole catalog? Pro turns the variation image workflow into a bulk operation: drag-and-drop straight from the product image pool onto any variation, distribute a parent gallery across every variation's main image in one pass (Fill empty mains / Assign in order), generate all variations in place when you add an attribute, and clear variation mains and galleries in bulk — all chunked and all undoable. If variation photography is your bottleneck, this is the release that fixes it. 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
• Product image pool right in the grid — every image attached to a variable product and its variations, gathered in one place so the picker always has your shots on hand
• Clear variation main and gallery images per product row
• Undo snapshots for all supported bulk and write actions — including variation image, variation gallery, and image-pool operations — no product cap, no undo limit
• Column visibility picker with saved state

A separate commercial package (hosted at bossyplugins.com) adds Variation images at catalog scale — the Pro image toolkit:

• 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
• Distribute a parent gallery across variation mains in bulk — Fill empty mains and Assign in order, chunked with undo
• Generate all variations in place when you add an attribute — existing variations keep their IDs and get defaults for new attributes; only missing combinations are created
• Bulk clear variation main images, gallery images, or both on selected variation rows — chunked with undo
• Media Manager — manage every product gallery from one screen, including one-click Clear gallery per product card (with undo)
• Gallery & Storefront Settings — four frontend layout presets (quilt/tiled collage, editorial main stage, filmstrip, ledge), thumbnail controls, per-variation galleries

Beyond images:

• 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
• Inline Attributes editing in the grid
• Bulk Clone / Duplicate products
• 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.

1.12.0

• Bulk grid (Free + Pro): add Virtual and Downloadable columns to toggle product type flags directly in the spreadsheet view.
• Snapshot undo: restore now includes the new Virtual/Downloadable flags from bulk grid edits.
• Bulk grid (Free + Pro): inline Sale start / Sale end columns with date-only editing and row-save support.
• Bulk actions (Free + Pro): Bulk sale dates bar added for quick start/end scheduling with Force sale OFF.
• Pro bulk editor: Preview panel shows a 5-row before/after sample for bulk price + find/replace.
• Pro CSV export: image_url column (featured + gallery URLs on parent rows) for edit-in-Sheets round-trip.
• Pro CSV export: optional Include variation rows and Round trip (import-ready) column preset — one row per variation with parent link, SKU, prices, stock, variation image URL, attribute pairs, and bossy_var_gallery.
• Pro CSV export: numbered attr_N_* columns on parent rows (name, values, visible, global, default) aligned with the existing import attribute mapper.
• Pro import auto-map: recognizes Bossy export headers (attr_1_name, var_attr_1_value, parent_sku, etc.) without manual column mapping.
• Pro Variations tab: SKU find & replace across selected variation rows (supports case/whole-word/regex).
• Free CSV export: read-only Core fields (free) for Filtered/Selected rows, capped at 500.

1.11.1

• Pro variation SKUs: fixed generate-all and add-attribute leaving new variation SKUs blank. The parent-scoped backfill ({parent-sku}-01, -02, …) now reads each variation's own SKU (edit context) instead of the parent-inherited value, so freshly created variations are numbered instead of falling back to the bare parent SKU.
• Pro variation images: single-image Apply on variation cards now replaces the target gallery lane instead of appending, regardless of the gallery-mode dropdown state.
• Pro import: re-importing a title-only CSV (no listing id / blank SKU, e.g. Etsy exports) now matches existing products by title across all product types and dedupes to a single product instead of creating duplicates; added a Match existing by control (Auto / Title / SKU / Listing ID) in the import options.

1.11.0

• Bulk grid (Free + Pro): optional Featured, Menu order, and Tax class columns — inline edit, row save, bulk save, and snapshot undo.
• Bulk actions (Free + Pro): new apply tools for Featured, Tax class, and Menu order on selected products, plus existing bulk action confirmations showing N selected · M will change.
• Bulk grid UI (Free + Pro): panel layout reworked into a compact, organized control deck with tighter spacing and consistent card placement across free and Pro.
• Bulk grid columns (Free + Pro): reordered for faster flow — Featured/Menu near Img, package fields grouped before Shipping Class, and copy controls aligned near pricing.
• Bulk grid visuals (Free + Pro): Featured now uses a star toggle (hollow to filled yellow) for clear separation from row-selection checkboxes.
• Pro CSV export: featured, menu_order, tax_class, virtual, and downloadable fields for round-trip with import.
• Pro Find & Replace: regex and whole-word match modes (plain, whole-word, or regex).
• Frontend gallery (Blocksy/Flexy): fixed filmstrip overflow, thumbnail rail nav/chevrons, autoscroll behavior, stage-chevron layering, and load smoothness across filmstrip/editorial/ledge paths.
• Pro Variations tab: gallery column selector (Gallery 1/2/…), pop-out gallery reorder, max columns on load, default visible gallery columns.
• Pro Variations tab / bulk panel: chunked variation generate, in-place panel refresh, bulk pool-to-variation distribution, and variation image clears (continued from 1.10.x).
• Importer note: new export/grid fields require matching import aliases — Tier 2 will expand image URL and variation-row import paths.
• Dead-code cleanup: removed unhooked legacy gallery helpers superseded by head-priority enforcer; restored bossy_enrich_available_variation_gallery hook callback; added free Variations tab stub; dropped dev debug asset.

1.10.17

• Variation image pool (Free): refined selection state and apply-target UI in the bulk editor, with each variable product's parent images now included in the grid row data so the picker always has the full pool on hand — plus undo labels and undo state handling for variation and pool image actions.
• Pro — This is the big variation-image release. Generate all variations: expand in place when adding attributes. Existing variations keep their IDs and get default values for new attributes; only missing combinations are created. Duplicates and invalid rows are still removed.
• Pro — Generate all and Add variation: chunked creation removes the old ~200-combination ceiling. Large attribute matrices (500+ variations) run in batched AJAX passes with in-grid progress, a single undo batch, and no full-grid reload when the variation panel stays open.
• Pro — Bulk Editor variation panel: generate-all, add variation, clear variation images, and related variation-card actions refresh the open panel in place so expanded cards stay open instead of reloading the whole product grid.
• Pro — Media Manager: Clear gallery on each product card clears the parent featured image and gallery (variation images unchanged), with undo.
• Pro — Bulk Editor: Fill empty mains and Assign in order on the product image pool distribute parent gallery images to variation mains in bulk (chunked + undo).
• Pro — Variations tab: clear actions now use explicit variation wording — Clear variation main image(s), Clear variation gallery image(s), and Clear variation main + gallery on selected variation rows (chunked + undo).
• Pro — Frontend gallery layouts: quilt/tiled collage now uses square-only mixed-size tiles; editorial main stage is square with contained/anchored thumbnails and no editorial chevrons; filmstrip thumbnail navigation/autoscroll behavior corrected.
• Pro — Frontend gallery controls: chevron visuals and alignment standardized across stage, filmstrip, and ledge/ledge-reverse layouts.

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.