EAN Barcode Generator for WooCommerce: UPC, ISBN & GTIN Inventory icon

EAN Barcode Generator for WooCommerce: UPC, ISBN & GTIN Inventory

Handles creation, storage, and retrieval of product barcodes including EAN, UPC, ISBN, and GTIN formats within WooCommerce. The plugin supports bulk operations and barcode display across inventory management workflows.

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  • #1,048 Global Rank
  • 10K+ active installs
  • 4.9/5 55 ratings
  • Since 2020 6 years active

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Popularity 40% 10K+ active installs
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Reputation 35% 4.9★ from 55 ratings
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Freshness 25% Updated 29 days ago

No active penalty — 6 historical CVEs, resolved — details

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Vulnerabilities

6 Total
6 Patched
0 Active
100% Resolved rate
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The EAN for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 5.4.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

6.4 Medium Affected All – 5.4.6 Patched in ✓ 5.4.7 Published 19 May 2025 CVE CVE-2025-48249
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization

The EAN Barcode Generator for WooCommerce: UPC, ISBN & GTIN Inventory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

4.3 Medium Affected All – 5.3.5 Patched in ✓ 5.4.0 Published 3 Feb 2025 CVE CVE-2025-22673
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation

The EAN for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary options updates n all versions up to, and including, 4.8.9. This is due to insufficient restrictions on option values that can be supplied. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level access and above, to update arbitrary options that can be leveraged for privilege escalation.

7.2 High Affected All – 4.8.9 Patched in ✓ 4.9.0 Published 3 May 2024 CVE CVE-2024-34370
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The EAN for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'alg_wc_ean_product_meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

6.4 Medium Affected All – 4.9.2 Patched in ✓ 4.9.3 Published 17 Apr 2024 CVE CVE-2023-6892
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The EAN for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2 via the the 'alg_wc_ean_product_meta' shortcode due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to expose potentially sensitive post metadata.

4.3 Medium Affected All – 4.9.2 Patched in ✓ 4.9.3 Published 17 Apr 2024 CVE CVE-2023-6897

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0 Resolved
0% Resolution rate

About EAN Barcode Generator for WooCommerce

Manage GTINs (EAN, UPC, ISBN, etc.) effortlessly in WooCommerce! Create, save, search, and display EANs easily, with tools for bulk actions, etc.

“Great simple plugin, fast support: Very simple and straightforward, had some trouble with wpml compatibility and support team resolved it fast.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ gorfeas

Main Page | Demo | Support Forum | Documentation & How to

Manage GTINs (EAN, UPC, ISBN, etc.) effortlessly in WooCommerce! Save, search, and display EANs easily. Tools for bulk actions and compatibility with major plugins.

Using this plugin, you can seamlessly assign unique identifiers to each product, ensuring global recognition for your shop products.

And with our advanced barcode management, you can customize & update everything either using our tools, or directly on your product editing page.

Currently supported standards: EAN-13, UPC-A, EAN-8, ISBN-13, JAN, EAN-14, Custom.

The EAN for WooCommerce plugin empowers you to efficiently handle product GTINs, from backend management to frontend display and beyond.

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🚀 Main Features: FREE Version

🚀 Save product GTINs/EANs in backend

Easily input and store product EANs within the WooCommerce backend, with the flexibility to assign unique identifiers to all product types (simple, variable, variation) for comprehensive inventory management.

🚀 Search by GTINs/EAN in backend & frontend

Effortlessly locate products by their EANs, whether you’re navigating the backend inventory or assisting customers on the frontend.

🚀 Add GTINs/EAN to product structured data

Improve search engine visibility and product categorization by including EANs in structured data, optimizing your store’s SEO and facilitating smoother integration with search engines.

🚀 Display EAN in order items & admin list

Enhance order processing and administrative tasks by displaying EANs alongside product details in order items and admin lists.

🚀 Efficient export/import & quick edit

Streamline inventory management with efficient export/import functionalities, enabling seamless transfer of EAN data, while quick edit options empower swift modifications for increased productivity.

🚀 Display EAN ANYWHERE

Customize EAN visibility across your WooCommerce store effortlessly. Showcase EANs on product pages, categories, carts, checkouts, and emails for seamless tracking and enhanced customer experience.

🚀 Include EAN in Invoices

Integrate EANs into your invoices with advanced compatibility across the popular invoicing plugins.

🧰 Tools

The plugin has tools that will help you generate, copy, assign and delete EANs in bulk, automatically or periodically, like:

  • Generate EANs automatically with customizable EAN type, country prefix(es) and seed.
  • Copy EANs from product SKU, product ID or product meta.
  • Assign EANs from the predefined list.
  • Delete EANs for all products at once.
  • Copy EANs to product SKU or product attribute.
  • Add or delete EANs for all orders at once.
  • Search orders by EAN.

🤝 Compatibility

“Amazing Plugin Compatible with Dokan and with Awesome Support: EAN for WooCommerce is super easy to set up, compatible with Dokan plugin and their customer support is awesome. If something needs to be fixed or improved, they will take action. Definitely recommend this plugin.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ sophie2e

“The best EAN plugin for Woocommerce: Simply the best plugin, the customer care are very impressive and reply fast and satisfy the request of the customers, thank you!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ sbazaars

🏆 Do More: PRO Version

All what’s listed above (and more) is available in the free version, but for those who would like to go further and beyond, we have a premium version of EAN, UPC, ISBN Generator: Product Barcode Inventory for WooCommerce Pro plugin.

🏆 Generate & display barcode images for products

Automatically create and showcase barcode images for products, enhancing visual identification and enabling efficient inventory tracking across various platforms.

🏆 Print multiple EANs & barcodes to PDF

Simplify offline operations by printing multiple EANs and corresponding barcodes to PDF files, facilitating convenient access to product information and barcode scanning.

🏆 Add multiple extra fields to each Product

Expand product details by incorporating multiple fields, so a product can have EAN and MPN fields simultaneously for example.

🏆 Full support for 1D (barcodes) or 2D (barcodes, QR codes)

Whether you need traditional barcode formats or modern QR codes, our plugin has you covered for comprehensive product identification.

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❤️ User Testimonials: See What Others Are Saying!

“Perfect support, stable plugin. If you don’t trust online-ratings, just look at the comments. There actually is an outstanding support team.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Max Meyer

“I needed multiple EAN codes for my products so I found this plugin works well. There was a layout problem with displaying the code on my product pages but Tom helped me to fix it shortly. Thanks!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Frank C.

“Perfect. Great Plugin. Tom has been super helpful in supporting us and configuring our POS requests. Very much recommend and money well spent so far!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ D.K

“Excellent Plugin and Support: I can’t say enough how fantastic support is for this product! The plugin is amazing too! provides everything you need to ensure your product feeds have GTIN/EAN numbers.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ fit2death

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Changelog

5.5.9 – 20/07/2026

  • Dev – Product Tools – Assign from the list – Reuse deleted – “Prefix” option added.
  • Dev – Product Tools – Assign from the list – ‘Add “Assign from the list” button’ option added (defaults to no).
  • Dev – Developers – alg_wc_ean_tool_product_assign_list_reuse_deleted filter added.
  • Dev – Developers – alg_wc_ean_tool_on_create_update_product_copy_to_meta action added.
  • Dev – Code refactoring.

5.5.8 – 11/07/2026

  • Dev – Product Tools – Automatic actions – New actions added (woocommerce_new_product and woocommerce_update_product).

5.5.7 – 25/06/2026

  • Dev – Security – Nonce added (generate button AJAX).
  • WC tested up to: 10.9.

5.5.6 – 24/06/2026

  • Dev – Prefixes updated (from alg to wpfactory).
  • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Library updated (to v1.1.1).
  • Dev – WPFactory Cross-Selling – Library updated (to v1.1.2).

5.5.5 – 11/06/2026

  • Dev – Security – Output escaped.
  • Dev – Security – Input sanitized.
  • Dev – All CSS and JS moved to external files.
  • Dev – All JS files moved to the assets folders.
  • Dev – Print.js library – Loading locally.
  • Dev – Print.js library – Updated to v1.5.0.
  • Dev – Coding standards improved.
  • Dev – Code refactoring.
  • WC tested up to: 10.8.
  • Requires at least: 5.7.

5.5.4 – 22/05/2026

  • Tested up to: 7.0.

5.5.3 – 22/04/2026

  • Dev – Orders – Add EAN to new order items meta – Block-based checkout compatibility.
  • Dev – WPFactory Recommendations – Library updated (to v1.1.0).
  • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Library updated (to v1.1.0).
  • Dev – WPFactory Key Manager – Library updated (to v1.0.8).
  • Deploy script updated.
  • Tested up to: 6.9.
  • WC tested up to: 10.7.

5.5.2 – 05/11/2025

  • Fix – Admin product edit page – “Generate” button – Save generated EAN for the product variations.
  • Dev – Admin product edit page – “Generate” button – Update the button styling for the simple products.
  • Dev – Coding standards improved.
  • WC tested up to: 10.3.

5.5.1 – 12/10/2025

  • Dev – WPFactory Recommendations – Library updated (to v1.0.6).
  • WC tested up to: 10.2.

5.5.0 – 10/07/2025

  • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Plugin icon method updated.
  • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Library updated.
  • Dev – Compatibility – Point of Sale for WooCommerce – Admin settings descriptions updated.
  • Dev – Coding standards improved.

5.4.9 – 20/06/2025

  • Fix – Updated descriptions from “WooCommerce > Settings” to “WPFactory”.

5.4.8 – 15/06/2025

  • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Plugin icon added.
  • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Library updated.
  • Dev – Coding standards improved.
  • WC tested up to: 9.9.

5.4.7 – 09/05/2025

  • Dev – Security – Shortcodes – Output escaped.

5.4.6 – 30/04/2025

  • Fix – Compatibility sections – Translation loading fixed.

5.4.5 – 22/04/2025

  • Dev – 2D Barcodes > Compatibility – “QRcode class” options added (defaults to no).

5.4.4 – 21/04/2025

  • Fix – Translation loading fixed.
  • Dev – Key Manager – Library updated.
  • Tested up to: 6.8.
  • WC tested up to: 9.8.

5.4.3 – 03/04/2025

  • Fix – General – Admin product block editor – Translation loading fixed.
  • WC tested up to: 9.7.

5.4.2 – 04/02/2025

  • Dev – Print – Advanced – “Define K_PATH_CACHE” option added (defaults to no).

5.4.1 – 02/02/2025

  • Dev – Languages – POT file regenerated with WP-CLI.
  • Dev – Coding standards improved.

5.4.0 – 24/01/2025

  • Dev – Security – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_product_function] – User capability check added.
  • Dev – Security – Output escaped.
  • Dev – Security – Input sanitized.
  • Dev – Code refactoring.
  • Dev – Coding standards improved.
  • Dev – Composer – autoloader-suffix param added.
  • WC tested up to: 9.6.

5.3.5 – 04/12/2024

  • Dev – Security – Output escaped.
  • Dev – Key Manager – Library updated.
  • Dev – Coding standards improved.

5.3.4 – 02/12/2024

  • Fix – Barcode Generator – Alg_WC_EAN_TCPDFBarcode class loading fixed.
  • Dev – Coding standards improved.

5.3.3 – 21/11/2024

  • Dev – Developers – Product Tools – Automatic actions – alg_wc_ean_product_tools_insert_post_current_ean filter added.
  • Dev – Developers – Product Tools – Automatic actions – alg_wc_ean_product_tools_insert_post_copy_to_variations_meta_key filter added.

5.3.2 – 20/11/2024

  • Dev – Product Tools – Automatic actions – “Variable product: Copy to variations” options added.
  • Tested up to: 6.7.
  • WC tested up to: 9.4.

5.3.1 – 01/11/2024

  • Dev – Compatibility – “WC Vendors” option added (defaults to yes).
  • Dev – Recommendations – Library updated.
  • Plugin name updated.

5.3.0 – 23/10/2024

  • Dev – Plugin settings moved to the “WPFactory” menu.
  • Dev – “Recommendations” added.
  • Dev – Key Manager – Library updated.
  • Dev – Code refactoring.

5.2.2 – 11/10/2024

  • Fix – EAN-14 maxlength fixed when the “Type” is set to “Automatic”.
  • Dev – Key Manager – Library updated.

5.2.1 – 06/10/2024

  • Dev – General – “Admin product block editor” option added (defaults to yes).

5.2.0 – 02/10/2024

  • Dev – Quick edit – Show current product EAN value.
  • Dev – “Key Manager” added.
  • WC tested up to: 9.3.

5.1.1 – 10/09/2024

  • Dev – Advanced – Admin settings descriptions updated.

5.1.0 – 06/09/2024

  • Dev – Pro – “TCPDF” library updated (to v6.7.5).
  • Dev – Pro – Print – Options are sanitized now.
  • Plugin short description updated.

5.0.0 – 03/09/2024

  • Dev – Pro – Barcodes – [alg_wc_ean_barcode_2d]contenttitle option added.
  • Dev – Pro – Barcodes – [alg_wc_ean_barcode_2d]contentformatted_name option added.
  • Dev – Pro – Barcodes – [alg_wc_ean_barcode_2d]contentattribute_summary option added.
  • Dev – Pro – Developers – alg_wc_ean_barcode_shortcode_content filter added.
  • Dev – Pro – Developers – alg_wc_ean_barcode_2d_shortcode_content filter added.
  • WC tested up to: 9.2.

4.9.9 – 31/07/2024

  • Fix – Shortcodes – Sanitizing shortcodes output – data protocol added (fixes the issue with barcode images in the Pro version).
  • Dev – Pro – Barcodes – Admin product edit page – “Template” options added.
  • Dev – Pro – Shortcodes – Barcodes – add_text attribute added to the [alg_wc_ean_barcode] and [alg_wc_ean_barcode_2d] shortcodes (defaults to no).
  • Dev – Pro – Developers – alg_wc_ean_barcode_args filter added.

4.9.8 – 30/07/2024

  • Tested up to: 6.6.
  • WC tested up to: 9.1.

4.9.7 – 27/06/2024

  • Fix – EAN-14 validation fixed when the “Type” is set to “Automatic”.
  • WC tested up to: 9.0.

4.9.6 – 14/06/2024

  • WC tested up to: 8.9.
  • WooCommerce added to the “Requires Plugins” (plugin header).

4.9.5 – 16/05/2024

  • Readme.txt – Content updated.

4.9.4 – 26/04/2024

  • Dev – Compatibility – “Google Product Feed” option added (defaults to yes).
  • Dev – Compatibility – “Woocommerce OpenPos” option added (defaults to yes).
  • WC tested up to: 8.8.

4.9.3 – 15/04/2024

  • Security – Shortcodes – Sanitizing shortcodes output (wp_kses_post()).
  • Security – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_product_meta] – Ensuring that only product meta is retrieved (get_post_meta() replaced with $product->get_meta()).
  • Tested up to: 6.5.
  • Readme.txt – Changelog – Truncated (full changelog moved to the changelog.txt file).

4.9.2 – 29/03/2024

  • Dev – Admin products list column – “Show duplicates” option added (defaults to yes).
  • WC tested up to: 8.7.
  • Readme.txt – Tags updated.

4.9.1 – 01/02/2024

  • Dev – Order Tools – “Search” tool added.
  • Dev – Admin settings – Tools – Section split: “Order Tools” section added.

4.9.0 – 30/01/2024

  • Dev – Advanced – Export/Import/Reset Plugin Settings – Import – Better data validation.
  • WC tested up to: 8.5.

4.8.9 – 06/01/2024

  • Dev – Orders – Now using “General > Title” for order item meta labels.

4.8.8 – 22/12/2023

  • Dev – Display – Single product page – Variable products: Position in variation – Description – Now checking if EAN is not empty.
  • WC tested up to: 8.4.

4.8.7 – 12/12/2023

  • Dev – PHP 8.2 compatibility – “Creation of dynamic property is deprecated” notice fixed.

4.8.6 – 29/11/2023

  • Dev – General – “Checkout” option added (defaults to no).

4.8.5 – 28/11/2023

  • Dev – General – Cart – “Template” option added.

4.8.4 – 27/11/2023

  • Fix – Pro – Print – Print buttons: Single order – HPOS compatibility.
  • WC tested up to: 8.3.

4.8.3 – 09/11/2023

  • Dev – Tools – Product Tools – Copy to product meta – “Meta sub key (optional)” option added.
  • Tested up to: 6.4.

4.8.2 – 20/10/2023

  • Dev – REST API – Orders – Add EAN to each order object in REST API responses – Extra checks added to prevent possible PHP warning.

4.8.1 – 19/10/2023

  • Dev – Admin settings – General – Admin product edit page – Add pattern – Description updated.
  • WC tested up to: 8.2.

4.8.0 – 05/10/2023

  • Dev – General – Admin product edit page – Add pattern – Default value changed to no.

4.7.9 – 25/09/2023

  • Plugin icon, banner updated.

4.7.8 – 25/09/2023

  • Fix – Admin settings – Compatibility – Google Listings & Ads – Typo fixed.

4.7.7 – 19/09/2023

  • Dev – Compatibility – Google Listings & Ads – Different approach implemented.

4.7.6 – 15/09/2023

  • Dev – Search – Code refactoring.
  • Dev – Pro – Extra Fields – “Admin product search” options added (default to no).
  • Dev – Pro – Extra Fields – “Search” (frontend) options added (default to no).
  • WC tested up to: 8.1.

4.7.5 – 05/09/2023

  • Dev – Compatibility – “Google Listings & Ads” option added.
  • Dev – Developers – alg_wc_ean_product_structured_data_value filter added.
  • Dev – Developers – alg_wc_ean_product_structured_data_markup_value filter added.
  • Dev – Developers – alg_wc_ean_product_structured_data_allow_empty_value filter added.

4.7.4 – 30/08/2023

  • Dev – Pro – Print – Cell – “Cell top/left/right/bottom margin” options added (all default to 0).
  • Dev – Pro – Print – Cell – “Cell content alignment” option added.
  • Dev – Pro – Print – Admin settings descriptions updated.

4.7.3 – 23/08/2023

  • Fix – Declaring HPOS compatibility for the free plugin version, even if the Pro version is activated.
  • Dev – Compatibility – “MultiVendorX” options added.
  • Dev – Admin settings – Advanced – Meta key – Description updated.

4.7.2 – 09/08/2023

  • Fix – Tools – Product Tools – Assign from the list – Product categories – Variations – Checking for the variable product type.
  • Dev – Tools – Product Tools – Assign from the list – Product categories – Variations – Ensuring that products are always sorted by ID (ASC).
  • Tested up to: 6.3.
  • WC tested up to: 8.0.

4.7.1 – 15/07/2023

  • Fix – Search / Admin product search / Admin products list column (sorting) – Handling cases when query['post_type'] is an array.

4.7.0 – 13/07/2023

  • Dev – “EAN-14” type added.
  • Dev – Code refactoring.

4.6.0 – 23/06/2023

  • Dev – Display – Shortcodes are now processed in the “Single product page” and “Shop pages” options.
  • Dev – Display – Shop pages – “Template” option added. Defaults to EAN: %ean%.
  • Dev – Tools – Product Tools – Copy from product attribute – “Custom product attribute” option added.
  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_if] shortcode added.
  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_if_product_cat] shortcode added.
  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_if_product_tag] shortcode added.
  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_product_terms] shortcode added.

4.5.1 – 18/06/2023

  • WC tested up to: 7.8.

4.5.0 – 07/06/2023

  • Dev – “High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)” compatibility.
  • Dev – Admin Settings – Option descriptions updated.
  • Dev – Code refactoring.
  • WC tested up to: 7.7.

4.4.6 – 02/05/2023

  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_is_valid] shortcode added.
  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_is_unique] shortcode added.
  • Dev – Compatibility – Dokan – “Description” option added.
  • Dev – Compatibility – Dokan – “Required HTML” option added.
  • WC tested up to: 7.6.

4.4.5 – 06/04/2023

  • Fix – Display – Frontend hooks (including barcodes) now are loaded on AJAX as well.
  • Dev – Developers – REST API – alg_wc_ean_rest_api_product_ean_key filter added.
  • Dev – Developers – REST API – alg_wc_ean_rest_api_order_ean_key filter added.
  • Dev – Admin Settings – General – Option descriptions updated.
  • Tested up to: 6.2.
  • WC tested up to: 7.5.

4.4.4 – 02/02/2023

  • Dev – Developers – Admin product search – alg_wc_ean_search_backend filter added.
  • Dev – Developers – Search – alg_wc_ean_search filter added.
  • WC tested up to: 7.3.

4.4.3 – 10/01/2023

  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_product_image] – Security – height and width attributes are escaped now.
  • WC tested up to: 7.2.

4.4.2 – 26/11/2022

  • Dev – Tools – Product Tools – “Copy from product attribute” tool added.

4.4.1 – 25/11/2022

  • Dev – Compatibility – Dokan – “Required” option added (defaults to no).
  • WC tested up to: 7.1.
  • Tested up to: 6.1.

4.4.0 – 20/10/2022

  • Dev – General – Admin product edit page – “Require” option added. Defaults to no.
  • Dev – General – Admin product edit page – “Add pattern” option added. Defaults to yes.
  • Dev – Advanced – JavaScript Variation Options – “Variations form” option added. Defaults to .variations_form.
  • WC tested up to: 7.0.

4.3.4 – 28/09/2022

  • Dev – General – Admin product edit page – “Position (variation product)” option added. Defaults to “Variations: After pricing”.
  • WC tested up to: 6.9.

4.3.3 – 08/09/2022

  • Fix – Tools – Product Tools – Assign from the list – Product categories – Variations category filtering fixed.

4.3.2 – 29/08/2022

  • Dev – REST API – Products – Add EAN to each product object in REST API responses – EAN added to variation responses as well.

4.3.1 – 15/08/2022

  • Dev – Pro – Print/Barcode Generator – Now checking if classes exist before including the TCPDF library.
  • WC tested up to: 6.8.

4.3.0 – 03/08/2022

  • Dev – REST API – Products – Search by EAN – Now including product variations as well.
  • Dev – Pro – Print – Print Tools – “Products List” tool added.
  • Dev – Pro – Print – Admin Options – Print buttons – Quantity input – “Products > Bulk actions > Each product” option added.
  • Dev – Pro – Extra Fields – Admin settings section description updated.

4.2.0 – 27/07/2022

  • Dev – Compatibility – “Woocommerce OpenPos” compatibility added (“EAN” field is now available in “POS > Setting > Barcode Label > Barcode Meta Key”).
  • Dev – Compatibility – WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips – “Content” options added. Includes barcodes.
  • Dev – Pro – Code refactoring:
    • Barcode Generator.
    • Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_barcode] and [alg_wc_ean_barcode_2d].
  • WC tested up to: 6.7.

4.1.2 – 17/06/2022

  • Dev – Tools – Product Actions – Bulk actions – “Require confirmation?” option added (defaults to “Delete EAN”).
  • Fix – Pro – Print – Print Tools – Quantity – Quantity input was ignored when products had identical EANs.
  • Dev – Pro – Print – Admin Options – Print buttons – “Quantity input” option added.

4.1.1 – 16/06/2022

  • Fix – Admin product search – Including all post statuses now (e.g., drafts).
  • Dev – Tools – Product Tools – Copy to product meta – Meta key – Comma-separated list of keys is now accepted.

4.1.0 – 16/06/2022

  • Dev – Tools – Product Tools – “Copy to product meta” tool added.
  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_product_sku] – Optional max_length attribute added.
  • Dev – Pro – Print – Print Tools – “Print” tool added.
  • Dev – Pro – Developers – Print – alg_wc_ean_print_get_products filter added.
  • WC tested up to: 6.6.

4.0.0 – 10/06/2022

  • Dev – General – Admin product edit page – ‘Add “Generate” button’ option added.
  • Dev – Compatibility – WCFM – Variations are supported now.
  • Dev – Compatibility – WCFM – ‘Add “Generate” button’ option added.
  • Dev – Advanced – Export/Import Plugin Settings – “Reset” tool added.
  • Dev – Advanced – Export/Import Plugin Settings – Code refactoring.
  • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_wc_ean_product_author_id] shortcode added.
  • Dev – Developers – Tools – Product Tools – Generate:
    • alg_wc_ean_product_tools_generate_ean_country_prefix filter added.
    • alg_wc_ean_product_tools_generate_ean_seed_prefix filter added.
    • alg_wc_ean_product_tools_generate_ean_seed filter added.
  • Dev – Pro – “Extra Fields” sections added.
  • Dev – Pro – Shortcodes – Barcodes – img_w and img_h attributes added (both default to false).

See changelog for all versions.

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