Change the "Duplicate product" capability in WooCommerce

Change the “Duplicate product” capability in WooCommerce

March 4, 2015

WooCommerce has a nice feature which allows you to duplicate a product and create new products starting from there. This saves a lot of time to shop managers and administrators.

But they are the only two (roles) who can duplicate products by default.

What if somebody needs the same feature, like a vendor?

There’s a filter in WooCommerce which you can use to change the capability needed to use this feature.

We know that vendors created with WooCommerce Product Vendors have the capability edit_products which allows them to edit their own products.

So, open your functions.php file located in wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/ and add this code at the end of the file:

This will allow any user who has the capability edit_products to duplicate products. It includes Administrators, Shop Managers, Vendors, or any other customer user role created with other plugins.

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7 responses to “Change the “Duplicate product” capability in WooCommerce”

Enrico Buttignol

September 22, 2015 at 12:10 pm

Ciao, grazie per questa spiegazione.
Sapresti indicarmi gentilmente cosa dovrei scrivere per rimuovere completamente la funzione “duplicate” di WooCommerce?

Grazie
-Enrico

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1. Nicola Mustone
  
  April 11, 2016 at 2:15 pm
  
  Ciao Enrico,
  Qui puoi trovare il codice per rimuovere completamente la funziona per duplicare i prodotti: https://gist.github.com/SiR-DanieL/da1c464cf27c51400d3aaa0135d1203f
  
  Hello Enrico,
  Here you can find a snippet to remove the Duplicate feature: https://gist.github.com/SiR-DanieL/da1c464cf27c51400d3aaa0135d1203f
  
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PRrONTO

April 5, 2016 at 11:39 pm

Is there a way of duplicating vendors for a particular product (I run a marketplace) instead of duplicating products for vendors?
I think that will be more useful to me.
Thanks

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1. Nicola Mustone
  
  April 11, 2016 at 2:16 pm
  
  I’m sorry but I don’t think there’s a way to do this.
  Maybe with a plugin to duplicate custom taxonomies, but I’m not aware of such plugin.
  
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  1. PRrONTO
    
    April 27, 2016 at 8:15 pm
    
    Ok. Thanks for your response anyway.
    I’ve been getting by somehow though.
    Cheers
    
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Szabolcs Sz

March 19, 2018 at 10:12 pm

Thank you Nicola for the great post,

I’m struggling with this because the snippet does seem to work for the vendors on my site.
I ‘ve found this exact solution from different sources, added to my child theme’s functions.php (I do have other actions running fine from the child theme’s functions.php).

I use user role editor and the
edit_products capability is granted for the vendors. I did try to disable the user role editor plugin in case if that is the culprit but it wasn’t.

Any advice? Thanks.

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1. Nicola Mustone
  
  March 20, 2018 at 7:38 am
  
  Hi,
  try to wrap the filter in another function and hooks that function to the init hook.
  
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