Write product descriptions in bulk

WooCommerceIntermediate~25 min

Before you start

A connected store with the WooCommerce integration enabled and its product read and update abilities turned on.

Most stores have a category where the descriptions never got written. Half the products carry the one-line blurb from the supplier, a few are empty, and the rest repeat the title. Fixing that by hand means opening every product, and you stop after the first handful.

This lets the agent read what is there and draft a rewrite for each product, while you stay the one who decides what actually saves. It only touches the description, so nothing about the price or the stock moves.

The prompt
I want to rewrite the product descriptions in [the "Accessories" category].
Do this in two passes and save nothing on the first one.
First, list the products in that category and read the current short and
long description on each. Show me the first [8] as a table: the current
description beside a suggested rewrite that reads naturally and says what the
product actually is and who it is for. Leave the price, SKU, stock, and
categories alone.
I will tell you which rewrites to keep. Only after I say so, write the
approved ones back in batches of [15], and show me each batch before it
saves. At the end, list every product you changed.

Why this is safe to run

The first pass is all reads. Listing the products and pulling each one’s current description writes nothing, so every proposed rewrite arrives as a table you can weigh before anything is committed. The current text sits right beside the suggestion, which doubles as your record if you ever want to put the old copy back.

The write half reaches only the description. It never moves a price, a stock count, or a category, and it never publishes or unpublishes a product. The WooCommerce abilities stay off until you switch them on, every update is checked against the manage-WooCommerce capability, and each one is written to the Activity Log with the product it changed.

Already connected? Skip the paste. Ask your agent for the “write product descriptions in bulk” recipe, or just describe the category, and it runs the same two-pass flow on your own store.

How it works

  1. List the products in the category or set you name.
  2. Read the current short and long description on each one.
  3. Show sample rewrites beside the current text and wait for your approval.
  4. Write the approved descriptions back in small batches, pausing between each batch.
  5. Return the list of every product it changed.

Questions

Does this change price, stock, or anything besides the description?
No. It writes only the description fields you approved. Prices, SKUs, stock, and categories are left exactly as they were.
Can I keep the descriptions I already like?
Yes. The dry run shows a rewrite for each product and you choose which to keep. Products you leave out are never touched.