Upload Woocomerce Products With Excel And Local Images?

Ibrahim Shahine — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:34:14 +0000

Introduction

In the world of e-commerce, efficiency is key.
WooCommerce is a popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress that allows store owners to manage and sell products online. However, managing a large inventory or updating product details regularly can be time-consuming when done manually through the WordPress dashboard.

Problem And Solution

Many WooCommerce store owners handle large product inventories, which include diverse categories, variable products, and numerous attributes.
Regularly bulk updating prices, stock, descriptions, or adding new products using the WooCommerce interface can be hard, particularly for those with large catalogs. Moreover, during peak sales periods like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, the ability to bulk update products quickly and accurately becomes crucial.

Current Solution

Excel is a tool familiar to most, used widely across various industries for data management due to its flexibility and powerful features. Many store owners already use Excel or similar spreadsheet software to keep track of inventory, pricing strategies, and other critical data offline.
Typically, the process involves manually uploading each image to the media library, copying the link, and then linking it back in the Excel sheet before import, this is very time-consuming.

Introducing My Plugin

To address these challenges, i am developing a Wordpress plugin that not only allows for the import of product data via Excel but also allows the uplaod of local images. This solution saves valueble time for store owners.

Features

Direct Image Upload: Upload local images directly through Excel, eliminating the need to manually handle each image.
Bulk Updates: Bulk update prices, stock levels, descriptions, and images for multiple products.

Stay Tuned

Follow my development journey and get updates on the release of this plugin by subscribing to my blog and following me on Dev.to. Your insights and feedback are invaluable and help tailor the plugin to better meet the needs of the WooCommerce community.

Exploring Bark, the Open Source Text-to-Speech Model

Ibrahim Shahine — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 08:56:38 +0000

Introduction

The AI boom has brought us a lot of tools, from LLM's to image generators. Amidst these innovations, text-to-speech technology remains crucial for accessibility, marketing, education and more. However, most high quality TTS models cost money and not open source.

Enter Bark, an open-source model developed by Suno.

So, what can we create with bark?

Bark AI opens up a world of possibilities for developers, content creators, and businesses alike.

Bark AI is not only about converting text into speech; it goes a step further by introducing emotional nuances such as laughing, sighing, and crying into the audio. This capability allows for more realistic and engaging voice outputs, significantly enhancing the current features available in the market.

How to Use Bark AI

We will be using the example from the Bark github repository, you can use Google Colab to run it.

So let's set our Google colab:

Click Runtime then change runtime type and choose GPU. Then write this and run it

!nvidia-smi

Install using pip

!pip install git+https://github.com/suno-ai/bark.git

Import the libraries

from bark import SAMPLE_RATE, generate_audio, preload_models
from scipy.io.wavfile import write as write_wav
from IPython.display import Audio

Download and load the models

preload_models()

Generate the audio from text

# generate audio from text
text_prompt = """
     Hello, my name is Ibra. And, uh — and I like to code. [laughs] 
     But I also have other hobbies like Bjj.
"""
audio_array = generate_audio(text_prompt, history_prompt="v2/en_speaker_6")

Save audio to disk

write_wav("bark_generation.wav", SAMPLE_RATE, audio_array)

DEV Community: Ibrahim Shahine

Upload Woocomerce Products With Excel And Local Images?

Introduction

Problem And Solution

Current Solution

Introducing My Plugin

Features

Stay Tuned

Exploring Bark, the Open Source Text-to-Speech Model

Introduction

So, what can we create with bark?

How to Use Bark AI