anttiviljami/woocommerce-clean-orphaned-variations

Adds a tool to the WooCommerce tools page, which finds and deletes any Product variations without parents.

WooCommerce Clean Orphaned Variations

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Adds a tool to the WooCommerce tools page which finds and deletes any Product variations without parents., _(*2)

Usage

1. Navigate to: WooCommerce > System Status > Tools (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-status&tab=tools)
2. Click the "Clean Orphaned Variations" -button

Screenshots

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Why?

Sometimes, for reasons unknown, WooCommerce will leave orphaned variation products in the database which can cause all sorts of problems., _(*4)

Most commonly, you would get this error message, _(*5)

PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function get_attributes() on a non-object in /my/wp/root/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/includes/class-wc-product-variation.php on line 664

This small tool is a quick and easy fix for those situations., _(*6)

Installation

The Composer Way (preferred)

Install the plugin via Composer, _(*7)

composer require anttiviljami/woocommerce-clean-orphaned-variations

Activate the plugin, _(*8)

wp plugin activate woocommerce-clean-orphaned-variations

The Old Fashioned Way

You can also install the plugin by directly uploading the zip file as instructed below:, _(*9)

1. Download the plugin
2. Upload to the plugin to /wp-content/plugins/ via the WordPress plugin uploader or your preferred method
3. Activate the plugin