Title: REST API Products Importer for WooCommerce
Author: AppZoic
Published: <strong>September 30, 2025</strong>
Last modified: September 30, 2025

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# REST API Products Importer for WooCommerce

 By [AppZoic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/appzoic/)

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 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api-products-importer-for-woocommerce/#developers)

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## Description

The **Rest API WooCommerce Product Importer** plugin allows you to seamlessly import
products from an external WordPress site that has the WordPress REST API enabled
and WooCommerce products. It’s perfect for syncing product catalogs from a main 
site to a satellite site, migrating products, or managing products from a central
repository.

**Key Features:**

 * **Remote Product Import:** Connect to any external WordPress site via its REST
   API endpoint.
 * **Complete Data Import:** Imports product title, description, excerpt, categories,
   tags, featured image, and price.
 * **Smart Category & Tag Handling:** Automatically creates matching product categories
   and tags on your site if they don’t already exist.
 * **Duplicate Prevention:** Checks if a product has already been imported and provides
   a link to edit it instead of duplicating.
 * **Pagination:** Browses through all available products from the remote site with
   a paginated interface.
 * **User-Friendly Interface:** A clean admin UI within your WordPress dashboard
   for easy importing.
 * **Security:** Uses nonces and security checks to validate all requests.

### License

This plugin is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.

### Disclaimer

This plugin is provided as-is. It is your responsibility to ensure you have the 
right to import content from the source website.

## Screenshots

[⌊Settings page for entering the source website URL.⌉⌊Settings page for entering
the source website URL.⌉[

Settings page for entering the source website URL.

[⌊The main product importer table, showing products available for import.⌉⌊The main
product importer table, showing products available for import.⌉[

The main product importer table, showing products available for import.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `rest-api-products-importer-for-woocommerce` folder to the `/wp-content/
    plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Ensure the **WooCommerce** plugin is installed and activated.
 4. Navigate to **WCAPI Importer > Settings** and enter the full URL (e.g., `https://
    example.com`) of the source website you want to import from.
 5. Go to **WCAPI Importer > Products Importer** to view and import available products.

## FAQ

### What do I need on the source website?

The source website must:
 1. Be a WordPress site. 2. Have the WordPress REST API
enabled (it is by default). 3. Have WooCommerce installed with products.

### The import fails with a “Request timeout” error. What should I do?

This means the remote server is taking too long to respond. This could be due to
a slow host, a large number of products, or server configuration. Try again later.
If the problem persists, contact the administrator of the source website.

### The categories/tags from the remote site aren’t showing up correctly.

The plugin attempts to create categories and tags with the same names. Ensure the
names do not contain invalid characters and that your user role has the permissions
to create new terms.

### Can I import variable products?

The current version (1.0.0) imports products as **Simple**, **Virtual**, and **Downloadable**
products. Support for variable products is not implemented in this release.

### Can I import from a site that requires authentication?

No, the current version only supports fetching data from publicly accessible REST
API endpoints.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“REST API Products Importer for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following
people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ AppZoic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/appzoic/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.
 * Core functionality: Connect to remote site, browse products, import product data,
   images, categories, and tags.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **9 months ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [api](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/api/)[importer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/importer/)
   [products](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/products/)[rest-api](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rest-api/)
   [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api-products-importer-for-woocommerce/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ AppZoic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/appzoic/)

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