Anonymous451
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Alidropship for Woocommerce Product Image Management
The issue:
Images for products come in two parts. The first part is the image that are in the gallery display on Aliexpress, those get automatically localized for the Woocommerce gallery. They will be in your Media Library after the product has been added to the Import List.
The second part, which usually has better or non-watermarked images are brought into Woo as links to alicdn network. So they are really just links to images hosted elsewhere. One issue with this, is google image search will link to aliexpress and not your site. Another issue this does not look very good from googles point of view for a lot of sites to hosting the exact same image for drop shipping, googlie getz thinking spammish a little. It is better to localize and rename your product images.
Here is how to manage and localize your product images. It is pretty simple to setup and use.
First step, get and install this plugin: Auto Upload Images
https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-upload-images/ no association, just found it to work well for my scenario.
Setup:
Put in your full site name, like https://example.com
In image name, this is the part where the setup for future product work becomes much easier.
In the image name field, use ‘%post_id%-%timestamp%’ - you can of course name it anything you want to, but it is good to leave the post_id for the first part, so we can easily go to the media library and search for all images under that post.
alt field and image size are up to you.
We exclude all post types except product and product variation. But again set as you need.
Now, when you first install the plugin, all image imports after that will be renamed and localized. This includes the images in the gallery. Images in the gallery are added to the media library when the product is put into the import list.
The images that are in the description are only localized after you save the product post as a draft for the first time. So it takes a moment if you have many for them to be localized.
We recommend this general workflow.
Find product in Aliexpress
Import product to your website, product is now in ‘Import List’
( you can also use the edit feature in the browser on import to pre-edit your product import)
Go to import list, find your product and edit it. Change your descriptions, remove images etc.
Then save it as a ‘Draft’
All image are now localized. From this point forward, it is now all automated.
After save as draft, further refine your post and finish editing images, add images to gallery, set new featured product image etc.
For instance, if you click the featured image in your edit post, you are in the media library.
in the search field, type in the post number, which you can see in the url of your browser something like ‘post=44585’, just search for the number part '44585' and all the images for that post will show in the media library. No more scrolling looking for images.
Remember, only images for posts after installation of the plugin will be affected. But it will localize all images if they are not localized each time you save that post. Very handy.
Let me know if you find this useful
~451
The issue:
Images for products come in two parts. The first part is the image that are in the gallery display on Aliexpress, those get automatically localized for the Woocommerce gallery. They will be in your Media Library after the product has been added to the Import List.
The second part, which usually has better or non-watermarked images are brought into Woo as links to alicdn network. So they are really just links to images hosted elsewhere. One issue with this, is google image search will link to aliexpress and not your site. Another issue this does not look very good from googles point of view for a lot of sites to hosting the exact same image for drop shipping, googlie getz thinking spammish a little. It is better to localize and rename your product images.
Here is how to manage and localize your product images. It is pretty simple to setup and use.
First step, get and install this plugin: Auto Upload Images
https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-upload-images/ no association, just found it to work well for my scenario.
Setup:
Put in your full site name, like https://example.com
In image name, this is the part where the setup for future product work becomes much easier.
In the image name field, use ‘%post_id%-%timestamp%’ - you can of course name it anything you want to, but it is good to leave the post_id for the first part, so we can easily go to the media library and search for all images under that post.
alt field and image size are up to you.
We exclude all post types except product and product variation. But again set as you need.
Now, when you first install the plugin, all image imports after that will be renamed and localized. This includes the images in the gallery. Images in the gallery are added to the media library when the product is put into the import list.
The images that are in the description are only localized after you save the product post as a draft for the first time. So it takes a moment if you have many for them to be localized.
We recommend this general workflow.
Find product in Aliexpress
Import product to your website, product is now in ‘Import List’
( you can also use the edit feature in the browser on import to pre-edit your product import)
Go to import list, find your product and edit it. Change your descriptions, remove images etc.
Then save it as a ‘Draft’
All image are now localized. From this point forward, it is now all automated.
After save as draft, further refine your post and finish editing images, add images to gallery, set new featured product image etc.
For instance, if you click the featured image in your edit post, you are in the media library.
in the search field, type in the post number, which you can see in the url of your browser something like ‘post=44585’, just search for the number part '44585' and all the images for that post will show in the media library. No more scrolling looking for images.
Remember, only images for posts after installation of the plugin will be affected. But it will localize all images if they are not localized each time you save that post. Very handy.
Let me know if you find this useful
~451
