SapphireIT Publish Guard for WooCommerce

A product published without a price, an image or a SKU is a half-finished listing: it sells badly or not at all. SapphireIT Publish Guard stops it at the publish button. It checks every product against a configurable checklist of required fields before it goes live, so incomplete products never reach your customers.

It is product validation for the WooCommerce catalog you already have. A missing SKU, an empty description, a variation without a price or a thin image gallery shows up while you edit, and a product that fails a required check is kept as a draft until it is fixed.

A live checklist in the product editor. A panel in the classic WooCommerce product editor lists every check, grouped by content, media, pricing, organization and inventory. It refreshes on its own as you type, upload images or pick categories.

You don’t need to save first. Each failing item links to the field that fixes it.

Twelve built-in checks:

• Product title

• Description (with a minimum length)

• Short description (with a minimum length)

• Featured image

• Product images (a minimum total count)

• Regular price (every enabled variation on variable products)

• Sale price validity (lower than the regular price, sensible dates)

• Product category (warns when only the store default is used)

• Product tags

• Variations and grouped products (a variable product needs an enabled variation, a grouped product a published linked product)

• SKU

• Stock status

Every check knows the product type. Variable products are checked variation by variation. A check that does not apply to a type, such as stock status on an external product, is shown as not applicable with the reason, instead of blocking the product.

Every failure says what is missing and where to fix it, for example “Product data → Variations”.

Each check can be turned off, or set to required (it must pass before the product can be published) or warning (advisory only).

Real enforcement, on the server. When a required check fails, the product is saved as a draft instead of being published, and a notice explains why. This is enforced on the server, so it also covers Quick Edit, Bulk Edit, scheduled publishing, the WooCommerce REST API and code that saves products through WooCommerce.

A disabled button in the browser would not be enforcement.

A readiness column in the products list. See at a glance which products are ready and which need work.

Light footprint.

• One settings row, plus a temporary flag that is removed once the welcome notice has been shown. No custom tables, post meta, roles or capabilities.

• Assets load only on the product editor, the products list and the settings screen, and once on the Plugins screen for the welcome notice.

• No outbound network requests, tracking or upsell notices.

SapphireIT Publish Guard for WooCommerce is an independent plugin. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by WooCommerce or Automattic.

Source Code

The editor script in build/ is compiled. com/rshalihin/sapphireit-publish-guard.

js and npm, then run:

• git clone https://github.com/rshalihin/sapphireit-publish-guard.git

• cd sapphireit-publish-guard

• npm install

• npm run build

The build uses @wordpress/scripts and writes the compiled files to build/.