How to export WooCommerce products to a file for transfer to another WordPress site

How to export WooCommerce products for transfer to another WordPress site?

Note: this article only deals with exporting Woocommerce products from a WordPress site but not importing them on another site. If you are interested in this second topic, you should look at this article dealing with it.

Exporting WooCommerce products from a WordPress website to a .csv file is simple and can be easily performed even by beginners if they follow these instructions.

Step 1) Go to the WordPress dashboard and click on the Products option (1). A submenu will open, and select All Products (2).

Export WooCommerce products: Products submenu in WP Dashboard menu

Step 2) This will open a list of all products. Above the list, next to the title Products, you will see buttons. Click the Export button.

Export WooCommerce products: Export Button

Step 3) This will open a screen where you need to define what your .csv product file will contain. Select the option Yes, export all custom meta (1), and then click the Generate CSV button (2).

Export WooCommerce products: Generate Products CSV screen

Step 4) Now all you have to do is save the generated file somewhere on your computer. And, that's it – you've exported the products from your WooCommerce store to a .csv file that can then be used on another website.

This article describes the easiest way to export WooCommerce products to a .csv file from WordPress for migrating to another site – step-by-step, illustrated

About the author

Obren Markov, Senior WordPress Developer and Elementor Expert

Obren Markov is a WordPress developer and designer with many years of experience in this field and several dozen created websites behind him. He is an Elementor Professional and the author of Template sets, who creates sites for end-users. Also works with agencies and independent WP designers as a subcontractor on their projects.

Basically about me

I’m Obren Markov, a senior WordPress developer, a qualified and university-educated IT professional accepted in Envato/ThemeForest as an Elementor template author and also in the Elementor Expert community.

I work directly for end users, but also for agencies and independent designers, complementing them in their projects.