Same products titles, but different SKU – how to ??

Hi @dvaa,

Whilst you can add posts to WordPress that have exactly the same title the permalink which loads the post ( including products ) would need to be slightly different from each other.

If the post titles are exactly the same WordPress would add automatically number to the end of the permalink to differentiate them from each other. This is also not something related to the WooCommerce plugin but rather WordPress itself.

With regards to SKU’s in WooCommerce, a different SKU can be set for each created product and each variation located on a product.

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out!

I understand that you need to have two variable products with the same name but different SKUs.

SKU can be set individually for each variation:

https://d.pr/i/8msaGs

It is possible to create two variable products with the same name – only the URL will be slightly different:

https://d.pr/i/RUdyCs

https://d.pr/i/uzBVcq

If you’d like to create variations with the same name though – that isn’t currently possible I’m afraid.

Variation names come from attribute values:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/#section-3

On my test site, I wasn’t able to set up an attribute with two identical values and successfully create variations from those.

I’ve reported this behaviour to our developers here:

https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/29983

At this point, having two variations with identical names will require code customization and I can’t promise this will be fixed soon, however, feel free to add details to the report in GitHub.

I hope this helps!

Thanks for yours fast replays.

I try to duplicate one product, and change permalink and SKU – this work fine:
https://ibb.co/2FSKjWv

Now, I export this two product to see how .csv look like, adn here is:
https://ibb.co/4ZbqKQX

ID and SKU is unique – now I must specify how t ocreate .csv for importing about 400 product with this conditions (same title, different SKU).I use this IMPORT-EXPORT plugin: https://plugins.vjinfotech.com/wordpress-import-export/documentation/variable-products/ but cant see this example here .
What do you think, how .csv should look like ?

Thanks in advance !

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by dvaA.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by dvaA.

Hi @dvaa,

I try to duplicate one product, and change permalink and SKU – this work fine:
https://ibb.co/2FSKjWv

Thank you for confirming!

Now, I export this two product to see how .csv look like, adn here is:
https://ibb.co/4ZbqKQX

ID and SKU is unique – now I must specify how t ocreate .csv for importing about 400 product with this conditions (same title, different SKU)I use this IMPORT-EXPORT plugin: https://plugins.vjinfotech.com/wordpress-import-export/documentation/variable-products/ but cant see this example here .
What do you think, how .csv should look like ?

I’m not familiar with this third-party plugin. I’m guessing that if you specify different IDs and SKUs, but the same name – the import should still work and create 400 products, although I can’t promise this will actually work.

You can also use the default WooCommerce importer/exporter:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/product-csv-importer-exporter/

I hope this helps!

Hi there,

We haven’t heard from you in a while so I’ll be marking this thread as resolved.

Feel free to open a new thread and link to this one if you have further questions though.

Have a wonderful day ahead!