Category removal ignores WooCommerce products
Bulk category removal does nothing for WooCommerce products, even with other plugins deactivated.
8 public reports · first reported 21 September 2020 · last reported 4 April 2023
What's going wrong
The bulk remove-from-category tool is meant to clear category assignments from many items at once, but store owners running WooCommerce report that selected products keep their categories after the job runs. Some say the product bulk edit screen shows no removal option at all, while posts work fine. Several reporters deactivated every other plugin and still saw the failure, so the gap seems tied to how product data is handled rather than to conflicts alone. Shop managers cleaning up redundant product categories are the most affected. A service that verifies each product's categories after a bulk change would give store owners confidence the job actually finished.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Bulk remove posts from category.
Related problems
Who has this problem
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