Changing 'Handles' & updating redirects in bulk

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Hi all,

I am looking for a swift way to update product handles which I know I can do with a product export to Excel, take titles, remove spaces and those then become the new handle. This is due to titles being changed over time.

Now the problem I have is that I will then need a redirect for each changed handle. I can see that I can do this when working on a products SEO individually but need to find a way for it to be automated.

So in short, some titles have changed, handles need updating and redirects need doing.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

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Did you get anywhere with this? I am looking to do the same thing as well across thousands of products, finding a way to do in bulk is a must

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not so far unfortunately.

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Hi! I have a similar issue.

I want to bulk update products via csv import and change the product handles. I understand that there is no way to do this easily in shopify.

I don’t know if this “solution” would be of some interest to you, but this is what I have been doing when product handles need changing:

  1. Export all Shopify products to excel
  2. Filter the products that need handles changed in Shopify (search via SKU)
  3. Change the product status of the filted list to “archived” and quantity available to “0”
  4. Import csv to Shopify - this will archive all products not needed anymore
  5. Import the same products with the new handles to shopify

I am a newbie here in Shopify, but this process would take out the not-updated products from clients’ view and would make the updated versions available.

Don’t know if this works for you or not, but it is what I have been doing :slightly_smiling_face:

Vera

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Hi, yes in principle I think that would solve some of the problem, thank you for explaining.

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