No matter if this snippet suits your needs or not, it’s still interesting to see how you can create a brand new WooCommerce product programmatically / automatically when a certain even triggers.
In this case studio, we’ll see how to generate a brand new product, set its featured image, price, category, title and a download file as soon as an image is uploaded in the WordPress backend Media section. This would be super useful for photographers for example – simply upload a new image to the WordPress Media Library, and a new product is automatically created.
Of course, you can customize the code and use it with different triggers. For example, you may need to create a new product automatically when each phone product needs always a matching case product, just with a different title. Or maybe you want to tie product creation once an order is placed.
Either way, enjoy!
PHP Snippet: Create Product Automatically When A New Image Is Uploaded @ WordPress Media Library
/**
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add_action( 'add_attachment', 'tutoraspire_create_product_automatically', 9999 );
function tutoraspire_create_product_automatically( $image_id ) {
$product = new WC_Product_Simple();
$product->set_name( 'Photo: ' . get_the_title( $image_id ) );
$product->set_status( 'publish' );
$product->set_catalog_visibility( 'visible' );
$product->set_price( 19.99 );
$product->set_regular_price( 19.99 );
$product->set_sold_individually( true );
$product->set_image_id( $image_id );
$product->set_downloadable( true );
$product->set_virtual( true );
$src_img = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $image_id, 'full' );
$file_url = reset( $src_img );
$file_md5 = md5( $file_url );
$download = new WC_Product_Download();
$download->set_name( get_the_title( $image_id ) );
$download->set_id( $file_md5 );
$download->set_file( $file_url );
$downloads[$file_md5] = $download;
$product->set_downloads( $downloads );
$product->save();
}
Screenshots
1. Image upload from Media Library (Calm.jpg)
2. Automatic product creation
