Beka Rice

SkyVerge

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<p><strong>Requires: WooCommerce 3.9.4</strong> or newer</p>
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<p>Automatically generate a SKU for parent / simple products, variations, or both when the product is published or updated.</p>
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<p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> The SKU field will be disabled for SKUs being generated by the plugin. Your own previously created SKUs <strong>will be overridden</strong> if you update a product while generating SKUs, and they will change if you change your product slug (while using this to generate them). Be sure you want to complete automate SKUs if you leave this enabled all of the time.</p>
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<p>You can also selectively enable and disable the plugin if you don’t want to override existing SKUs when saving products. You can <a href="http://www.skyverge.com/product/woocommerce-product-sku-generator/" rel="nofollow ugc">view product documentation</a> for help.</p>
<h4>Automated SKUs</h4>
<p>SKUs for simple, external, or parent products can be generated from the product’s slug (hyphenated name) or ID. For example, a product with the slug <code>wp-tee-shirt</code> can have a SKU of <code>wp-tee-shirt</code> or <code>192</code> (whatever the product’s ID is). This SKU will be generated any time the product is published or updated.</p>
<p>If the product is a variable product, this plugin can also generate SKUs for the product variations if desired (these typically inherit the parent SKU). Variation SKUs can either append attribute slugs or variation IDs for each variation to the parent SKU.</p>
<p><a href="https://cldup.com/8UdEpry7Q4.png" rel="nofollow ugc">Here are some samples</a> of different SKU formats that can be created with this plugin.</p>
<p>You can also manually set simple / parent SKUs, or manually set the variation SKUs, if you don’t want the plugin to generate them for you.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<p>This plugin provides options to:</p>
<ul>
<li>automatically generate simple / parent product SKUs when the product is published or updated</li>
<li>generate simple / parent product SKUs using the product slug or ID</li>
<li>automatically generate SKUs for product variations when the product is published or updated</li>
<li>generate variation SKUs using the attribute slugs or variation ID</li>
<li>use the bulk product update action to easily force SKU generation for more than one product — handy to bulk-generate SKUs for products created before installing this plugin</li>
</ul>
<h4>SKUs for all product types</h4>
<p>The Product SKU Generator for WooCommerce lets you determine which SKUs should be generated automatically, and whether these SKUs should use product slugs or IDs. If a SKU is generated, the input for that SKU will be disabled since you cannot adjust it.</p>
<p>If you choose not to generate a SKU, then you can enter your own SKU. For example, if you only generate variation SKUs, then you can enter a parent product SKU. This will be used as the base for your generated variation SKUs, and slugs or IDs will be appended to it.</p>
<p>If you only create parent / simple SKUs, you will be able to manually create your own variation SKUs, as these will not be overridden by saving or updating a product.</p>
<h4>Bulk Updating</h4>
<p>You can bulk add SKUs to products that you’ve created prior to installing this plugin. If you select the products you want to update, then bulk edit them, all you have to do is hit “Update”. When the products are saved, SKUs will be generated for all products.</p>
<p>This action will also automatically generate the SKUs for product variations if you have them enabled.</p>
<h4>More Details</h4>
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<li>See the <a href="http://www.skyverge.com/product/woocommerce-product-sku-generator/" rel="nofollow ugc">product page</a> for full details and documentation</li>
<li>View more of SkyVerge’s <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/skyverge/" rel="nofollow ugc">free WooCommerce extensions</a></li>
<li>View all <a href="http://www.skyverge.com/shop/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce extensions</a> from SkyVerge</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p><strong>The plugin text domain is</strong>: <code>woocommerce-product-sku-generator</code></p>
<h4>Attribute Names</h4>
<p>By default, if you have an attribute name with a space (such as “Burnt Marshmallow” for color), the SKU will use this exact formatting. A SKU for this variation would look like: <code>parentSKU-Burnt Marshmallow</code></p>
<p>If you enable the setting to replace spaces, this will instead look like: <code>parentSKU-Burnt_Marshmallow</code> or <code>parentSKU-Burnt-Marshmallow</code> — depending on which setting you’ve chose. This is helpful if your external fulfillment service does not allow spaces in SKUs.</p>
<h4>Attribute Sorting</h4>
<p>In very rare cases, you may find that variation SKUs do not sort attributes in the same order. For example, one variation may be <code>tee-shirt-large-black</code>, and another could be <code>tee-shirt-black-medium</code>.</p>
<p>If this occurs, you can force attributes to sort themselves consistently before generating the SKU, which will resolve this problem. You could also consider this for new installations.</p>
<p><strong>Be sure you want to enable this</strong> if you have existing SKUs, as variation SKUs that were generated previously <em>could</em> be overridden while updating a product – they’ll be re-generated with the forced attribute order.</p>
<p>To force attribute sorting, add this code snippet where you add your site modifications, such as a custom plugin or theme’s functions.php:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'wc_sku_generator_force_attribute_sorting', '__return_true' );
</code></pre>


Product SKU Generator for WooCommerce

Automatically generate WooCommerce product SKUs from the product / attribute slugs and/or IDs.

Dan Zakirov

campusboy

<p>Generate SKU in WooCommerce automatically when creating products, editing products, or running bulk actions.</p>
<p>Use one ruleset for your catalog and keep SKU values consistent without manual typing.</p>
<p>Built for stores that need fast SKU generation for products and variations, including bulk generation by all products or by category.</p>
<p>In under a minute, you can set prefix/suffix, format, length, variation separator, and batch size, then run generation safely.</p>
<p>Tested with WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.8.1.</p>
<h3>Settings</h3>
<p>WooCommerce → Settings → Products → SKU Settings</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ol>
<li>Auto-generate SKU for new products.</li>
<li>Skip generation when SKU already exists (unless recreate mode is enabled).</li>
<li>Generate variation SKUs for variable products.</li>
<li>Choose SKU format: numbers, letters, alphanumeric, or product slug.</li>
<li>Set SKU length.</li>
<li>Add prefix and suffix.</li>
<li>Add product ID to SKU.</li>
<li>Optional “Use Previous Product” mode (+1 sequence from previous product SKU).</li>
<li>Allow duplicate SKUs when needed.</li>
<li>Bulk generate SKU for all products.</li>
<li>Bulk generate SKU by category.</li>
<li>Additional number with configurable increment format.</li>
<li>Variation separator settings for variable products.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Why this plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce-focused SKU automation with both single-product and bulk generation workflows.</li>
<li>Slug mode and multiple SKU formats (numbers, letters, alphanumeric) in one settings screen.</li>
<li>Variation-safe generation with configurable separator logic.</li>
<li>Batch processing controls for large catalogs and lower-risk runs on weak hosting.</li>
<li>Clear overwrite behavior: keep existing SKU values or re-create them intentionally.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Settings Reference</h3>
<p>Use these options in WooCommerce → Settings → Products → SKU Settings.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Characters</strong> – sets the random SKU length.</li>
<li><strong>Prefix SKU</strong> – adds text before generated SKU (example: <code>BN_</code>).</li>
<li><strong>SKU format</strong> – choose numbers, letters, alphanumeric, or product slug.</li>
<li><strong>Add product ID</strong> – appends product ID to generated SKU.</li>
<li><strong>Take previous product</strong> – builds next SKU from the last published product (+1 sequence).</li>
<li><strong>Duplicate SKUs</strong> – allows repeated SKU values when your workflow needs it.</li>
<li><strong>SKU suffix</strong> – adds text at the end of generated SKU.</li>
<li><strong>Additional number</strong> – appends incrementing number in bulk mode (example: <code>001</code>, <code>002</code>, <code>003</code>).</li>
<li><strong>Format for Additional number</strong> – controls increment style with leading zeros.</li>
<li><strong>Enable variant settings</strong> – enables variation controls.</li>
<li><strong>Variable Product</strong> – enables/disables variation SKU generation.</li>
<li><strong>Variation Separator</strong> – separator between parent SKU and variation index (<code>-</code>, <code>--</code>, <code>/</code>, etc.).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Required Plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin works only with WooCommerce.</p>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<p>The plugin uses WooCommerce product meta (<code>_sku</code>) and applies your rules from SKU Settings.</p>
<p>You can use it in two modes:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Product editor mode</strong>: SKU is generated while creating or updating a product.</li>
<li><strong>Bulk mode</strong>: SKU is generated for all products or selected categories.</li>
</ol>
<p>When “Re-create existing SKUs” is disabled, only empty SKU values are generated.</p>
<h3>Bulk SKU Generation</h3>
<p>Bulk generator supports:</p>
<ul>
<li>Generate SKU for all products.</li>
<li>Generate SKU by category.</li>
<li>Optional recreation of existing SKU values.</li>
<li>Progress indicator during processing.</li>
</ul>
<p>Increasing batch size speeds up processing but increases server load.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>If you want to help with translations, please visit:<br />
<a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/easy-woocommerce-auto-sku-generator/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a></p>


Easy Auto SKU Generator for WooCommerce

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Generate and bulk-generate WooCommerce SKU codes automatically for products and variations with flexible formats, slug mode, and overwrite control.

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