Importing variation image to Variation Image Gallery using WP All Import

Is there anyway that I can use product/variation SKUs instead of IDs to reference the additional images? I’m trying to get this working with an import/export plugin but working with ID’s can be difficult… I installed another plugin (WooCommerce Additional Variation Images) to get this functionality, but that breaks some of the functionality of the theme and your implementation already exists mostly.

There is however a code snippet provided by the import/export plugin to enable using SKUs instead of IDs when referencing the images for import/export (in private content area)… is there a way you can modify this to make it work with the woodmart_variation_gallery meta field please, I think it will be a simple change for you?

Ok. The Additional Variation Images plugin by woocommerce can achieve this, but it breaks a few things on the product page (please see screenshots in private area) when active. I have been in touch with them and they pointed me back to you guys 🙁
So I feel a bit stuck right now… Here’s what they said:

Unfortunately, it looks like your theme isn’t playing nicely with Additional Variation Images. Your best bet here would be to contact your theme’s developer for a fix, as they have declared WooCommerce support. Alternatively, you may want to consider switching to a theme that doesn’t contain these issues.
Best,
Ross
Happiness Engineer @ Automattic

Please could you help?

I wanted to use your gallery as I said above but using ID’s isn’t gonna work and isn’t practical for most users – you must admit.

Of course I don’t want to change the theme and get a refund, how is that even helpful!? Like I said I’m in the middle here, everyone blames the other.

I need the ability to set these by SKU through an import file so it isn’t done one by one, being a time consuming process. I’ve mentioned a couple of ways to achieve it but nobody wants to add this feature to make their plugin better.

Hi Artem, I’ve given up on the idea of SKU as I understand it’s a lot of work.

However, is there at least a patch/workaround you will consider that allows me to reference the image by filename/file path? That way the image is still linked to the ID and is unique but it means I could enter a reference which makes sense and that I’d know when importing the variation images.

On a site with 100s or even 1000s of products, trying to get this format in a spreadsheet for each product is really tricky:
{“10029″:”10335″,”10028″:”10265″,”10027″:”10257”}
{“variation_id”:”attachment_id”,”variation_id”:”attachment_id”,”variation_id”:”attachment_id”}

An added advantage of doing it this way would be that if the image is deleted and re-uploaded or updated, it is assigned a new ID but the filename won’t have to change and I won’t have to go re-matching image IDs.

Consider it please? 🙂