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Importing WooCommerce Products Details With Accented Character

Last updated on September 20, 2023

The Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce offers a convenient solution for effortlessly importing and exporting WooCommerce products. However, during the import process, you may encounter errors caused by the presence of special characters in the data. This issue can easily be resolved by adding a code snippet in the functions.php file. Follow the below mentioned steps:

  • From the WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to Appearance > Theme File Editor.
  • Under Theme Files, select Theme Functions (functions.php).
  • Paste the code snippet at the end of the functions.php file of your active child theme.

Code snippet:

add_filter( 'wt_import_csv_parser_keep_bom', '__return_false' );