Bulk Delete Millions of WooCommerce Products using SQL - 🗑️ Bulk Delete WooCommerce Products using SQL

🗑️ Bulk Delete WooCommerce Products using SQL

While building and testing WooCommerce addons, I find myself in need of quickly deleting all WooCommerce products from the database. WPCLI is the easiest way to go, as you can achieve the desired results via a single line. NOTE:  if your database prefix isn’t the default wp_, you’ll need to change it with your actual database … Read full article →

Suggestions to reduce the wp options table size - Suggestions to reduce the wp_options table size

Suggestions to reduce the wp_options table size

In this post I discussed an example where wp_options table had 900k rows of plugin-based data in it, causing the wp-admin dashboard to load slowly. As noted there, good coding practice is for each plugin to create its own database tables and use those instead of default WP tables. While the WordPress community actively improves … Read full article →

WPXSS CLANCI - wp_actionscheduler_actions & wp_actionscheduler_logs tables

wp_actionscheduler_actions & wp_actionscheduler_logs tables

WooCommerce plugin uses the wp_actionsscheduler_actions table in the database to log scheduled actions such as cron’s running, product synchronization, upgrade, etc. These actions should be deleted once they are executed but this doesn’t always happen, in most cases, this table uses an InnoDB database engine with a row-level locking feature meaning that multiple queries can … Read full article →

How to delete all comments in WordPress - How to delete all comments in WordPress? 🗑️💬

How to delete all comments in WordPress? 🗑️💬

WordPress uses the wp_commentmeta and wp_comments tables to store comments and their data. To delete all comments in WordPress simply empty those tables in the database: To delete all spam comments use: To delete all unapproved comments use: NOTE: In the above commands change wp_ prefix with the table prefix that you are using *(view … Read full article →

wpcli export specific tables wordpress - Dumping specific tables using mysqldump or WP-CLI

Dumping specific tables using mysqldump or WP-CLI

For high-traffic websites, I advise developing a stagging website if you make significant updates or even switch the WordPress theme entirely. But one significant problem I encountered while moving from the staging site to the live one is that all database tables are updated, which could result in financial loss if the website receives multiple … Read full article →

create a new wp admin users - 5 Easy ways to Create a WordPress Admin user

5 Easy ways to Create a WordPress Admin user

Here are five different methods to create a new WordPress Admin user. In all of the examples below I will use the following username/password combination, so make sure to change it before running any of the commands: username123 change username123 with your username password123 change password123 with your password [email protected] change [email protected] with your email … Read full article →