WooWeekly #343: Bulk Delete

Hope all is well with you!

Here in Sicily (Italy) all is well! I’m feeling much better than last week, and that’s 99% of the job done. I’m writing this email at past midnight, in my bedroom, while I watch my child sleep peacefully in his crib, and that’s for sure a new one for me. Lorenzo is special and I’m looking forward to teaching him a bit of coding in a few years time… it’s gonna be fun!

Anyhow, welcome back to our WooCommerce Weekly appointment – here comes a series of WooCommerce tutorials put together by yours truly so that you can learn something new.

New WooCommerce Tips

WooCommerce: Bulk Delete Orders / Products Super Fast

There are times when you have thousands of WooCommerce orders, products, categories, tags, coupons, customers or custom fields and the “Bulk Edit > Delete” option in the WordPress dashboard is simply not cost- and time-effective. Maybe because your website goes down as it can’t process that much information at the same time, or maybe because you’re on a low budget and can’t afford to hit “delete” 100 or 1000 times by hand. Thankfully, WooCommerce information is stored in the WordPress database, which means we can access it, write a “SQL DELETE statement”, and bulk delete anything you like, in seconds. Of course, and you will find warnings below, NEVER DO THIS on a live website as I can’t guarantee this won’t have any side effects. So, have fun: https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-bulk-delete-orders-products-super-fast/

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  • Rodolfo Melogli

    Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

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