As your store evolves you may find it necessary to delete certain products for various reasons or duplicate others to quickly add more products with similar settings. On this page, you’ll learn how to duplicate products or delete them entirely from your WooCommerce store.
Duplicating a product
↑ Back to topDuplicating existing products is a time-saver. This way you can use an existing product as a template or a base to create similar products with variations and other qualities. To duplicate an existing product:
- Go to WooCommerce > Products and find the product you wish to replicate.
- Hover your mouse cursor over the product’s row in the product table. You’ll see several options appear.
- Click Duplicate from the list of options.
![duplicate](https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/duplicate.png?strip=all&w=704)
Deleting a product
↑ Back to topFollow these instructions to delete a product:
- Go to WooCommerce > Products.
- Find the product you wish to delete.
- Hover your mouse cursor in the area under the product name and click Trash.
Products in the trash can be restored or permanently deleted:
- Go to the product table at WooCommerce > Products.
- Click the Trash sub-tab at the top of the table to see all trashed products.
- From here you can:
- Restore trashed products individually or several at a time using the bulk actions dropdown.
- Permanently Delete trashed products individually or several at a time using the bulk actions dropdown.
- Empty Trash by using the Empty Trash button to permanently delete all trashed products.
Questions and Support
↑ Back to topDo you still have questions and need assistance?
This documentation is about the free, core WooCommerce plugin for which support is provided in our community forums on WordPress.org. Searching there you’ll often find that your question has been asked and answered before.
If you haven’t created a WordPress.org account to use the forums, here’s how.
- If you’re looking to extend the core functionality shown here, we recommend reviewing available extensions in the WooCommerce Marketplace.
- Need ongoing advanced support, or a customization built for WooCommerce? Hire a WooExpert agency.
- Are you a developer building your own WooCommerce integration or extension? Check our Developer Resources.
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