Deleted attributes showing up on product pages

eek. There are attributes stored within each product inside a meta value called _product_attributes. This is serialised so its fairly difficult to edit safely without a script.

Do you have a backup you can restore to by any chance?

Nope. That was the plan this week. Then we discovered this fantastic disaster.

I assumed that if I deleted the attributes from woocommerce attributes menu that they would not appear on the page anymore.

Even stranger. I just did a test where I made a variation for an attribute, then deleted the attribute. The variable product still worked and no longer showed the deleted attribute.

If you edit a broken product, are they still there under the ‘attributes’ tab? What version is this?

WHen I go into edit a product, the attributes still show but there are no options. If I go into a product and delete the attributes from the actual product page then they don’t show up anymore. But what would be the point of deleting it from the attributes menu if I have to fix every single one by hand?

Can you delete them from Products > Attributes

I did delete them from products – attributes and that was the results. Weird attribute choices on the product pages.

You said they were still visible on the product page though – if deleted globally, they cannot be shown there.

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if they are not global, and they are actual saved per product, then you’re in trouble ??

I created them in products – attributes and then used the bulk attribute manager to apply them to every product.

If there are deleted from the screen I just posted, bulk attribute manager may have created a product-level attribute, for each product, with the same name as your global attribute. There is no way to bulk delete those if that is the case, without a custom script.

I assume all products have different attributes too?

Well the bulk attributes I applied were all the same for every product. As far as it DELETING the size attribute, those were all custom by kind of item.

Is size the only attribute your variable products need, and is that a global attribute?

Yes that is the only thing I want. It was created globally. There are two different size attributes one for collars that are #’s and one for everything else that is XS, M, LG etc. This whole thing started because I needed to find a way to add gender and age to the product pages in order to upload my products to google merchant

I think something like product CSV importer might be needed if you want to fix in bulk. Then you could set the values of that attribute to blank and uncheck the ‘used for variations’ in bulk.

Otherwise you will need to edit each product.

well I do have one, it’s called all import and it’s still not deleting them. I made a master CVS of all products and we’re just gonna fix everything at once, delete all of the products and reupload them. I think it’s our only option.