Well, this is really becoming a topic as part of a series ! Today's topic is going to be a little complicated, but it can really speed up any current integration's you may have between your WooCommerce and CMS/Product Management Systems you may have in place. Let me first explain my current situation. The main issue, which turns in to a cumbersome work-around, is that our imges are all hosted on an external CDN. As I have already covered , by using the REST API, despite you give the URL for each product's image, it still uploads it to the media library. This comes at a cost of time, and for a heavy workload can be prone to connection timeouts. As part of my role, I put through many catalogues to a site, with a combined number of products in the 1000's - and it was quickly having to scale, so there had to be a better way. I knew there were people who had desired to write posts directly to SQL , and what is a WooCommerce product? A custom post! Think Large, Wr