@doublezed2 @carolm29 @anastas10s That is what I received in from support:
Hey there!
This support channel is for the paid extensions sold on WooCommerce.com. I see your question is regarding the free WooCommerce plugin.
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So you say that I should create a ticket and they say I need to use the support forum for core WooCommerce plugin. It’s kind of confusing.
Please, if you’ve already used your test sites to replicate the issue, then you can answer my questions above. Here I can repeat them for you:
- Have you opened the “Inspect tab” in your browser? Do you see the empty div element of the deleted image?
- Did you try to var_dump product gallery directly after image deletion using $product->get_gallery_image_ids() WITHOUT entering product edit page to find out that the deleted image id is still there?
- Also, you still didn’t provide the file path where you perform clearing image id from all related products after deletion as I asked you.
And here I can repeat what my problem is:
I’ve come even further and installed totally clean WordPress, installed WooCommerce and added couple of products. I uploaded new images in media library and then attached it to a few products. Then I deleted image and I can still see the extra image on the product page inside FlexSlider and in the thumbnails. Please see the screenshot below.
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Standard WordPress and Woocommerce themes just do not display these empty <img/> and <a> because they will not have any width and height in CSS, but if you open the Inspect tab you will clearly see the empty <a> tag inside flex slider and empty <img> tag inside product thumbs. The only difference that my theme has some css styles that applies some width and height to those elements. But it`s clearly the bug of WooCommerce.</p>
<p>The problem is absolutely not theme-related. It`s a global bug in WooCommerce. I installed the absolutely new, clean version of WordPress and the absolutely new, clean Woocommerce, created a few products, and could still replicate the issue. Have you seen the screenshot I attached? Could you tell me exactly where WooCommerce clears deleted attachments from the product gallery? If you create a product on the standard WP Twenty-Twenty-four theme, delete it, and look in the inspect tab. You will clearly see empty tags as WooCommerce tries to render attachments by ID and fails to retrieve them as they were deleted. So it just displays the empty string inside the a and img tags. Still, the ids of deleted attachments remain inside the product gallery; they’re present in the database. WooCommerce tries to render those attachments and creates separate tags and blocks for them. That block just has zero width and height only because of CSS styles in those themes, so that bug is just hard to notice visually. But you can still look inside the source code, like I showed in my screenshot. You can still var_dump the actual product gallery attachment IDs using $product->get_gallery_image_ids() to find out that the product gallery contains attachment IDs that do not exist anymore. You can even place some CSS code to add some width and height explicitly to the product thumbnail, and you will see that there are some empty image tags in there. WooCommerce does not clear the deleted attachment IDs from products or category galleries. Please let me know when you will fix this issue that can be replicated even on a standard WP theme with clean WooCommerce installed.
