Delete field data

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Import WP Addon - WooCommerce Updated 1 week ago 3 Replies

Ash asked 3 weeks ago on January 8, 2026 at 3:15 pm

Hi,

I’m updating product categories and I need to delete all existing category descriptions, how can this be acheived please?

Thanks

J

James replied Support Agent

2 weeks ago on January 15, 2026 at 9:06 pm

Hi Ash,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, i have managed to replicate your issue where on the term (product cat) template if you enable the description field and run the importer with an empty value the description or any empty fields were not being cleared, this has been resolved in the now released version of Importwp 2.14.20 which should be available for update within your wordpress admin area.

James

AM

Ash replied

1 week ago on January 19, 2026 at 4:12 pm

Brilliant thank you!

I have another query, one of my suppliers does not have a seperate discontinued sheet they simply remove them from the main product sheet, so when they are no longer in there they are discontinued.

Thing is most were not imported into woocommerce with your plugin. So the delete setting won't work, though they may have been updated with your plugin.

The plugin we used in shopify before moving we could filter what it updates by say a product tag which targeted only that supplier and any product that wasn't in the sheet it would delete.

J

James replied Support Agent

1 week ago on January 20, 2026 at 8:18 pm

Hi Ash,

If they have been updated with the importer, then the importer that updated them should also be able to delete them, if they no longer appear in the csv/xml file if you have the delete permission enabled.

James