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WooCommerce Clean Orphaned Variations

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

by @anttiviljami · github.com/anttiviljami/woocommerce-clean-orphaned-variations · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/anttiviljami/woocommerce-clean-orphaned-variations/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

On Packagist as anttiviljami/woocommerce-clean-orphaned-variations:

composer require anttiviljami/woocommerce-clean-orphaned-variations
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/anttiviljami/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.

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

Clean Orphaned Variations button

Why?

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

Most commonly, you would get this error message

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.

Installation

The Composer Way (preferred)

Install the plugin via Composer

composer require anttiviljami/woocommerce-clean-orphaned-variations

Activate the plugin

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:

  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