disable pmw tracking function & column

Hi @rwky

I’ll build an option into the plugin for the next release which will let you disable the column.

The query is very simple and fast on that data. I would not worry too much about speed in this case.

Kind regards
Aleksandar

Hello @alekv,

While I do agree with you, I have clients with high volume of orders and when you list 100 orders per page, you do not want other factors that slow down the admin (without taking into consideration the major issues the order listing has itself – here’s an example that applies if you store the data in order meta).

Yep. The problem described under that link happens because those queries do a join on two large tables. That doesn’t happen when doing single record queries on the meta table directly (like what the Pixel Manager does in the column).

And, for the queries with joins, the indexing plugin that you mentioned yourself can do wonders. In one case I’ve come across, it made the query 133 times faster.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by alekv.

And by the way. In that thread, the one who filed the bug made a mistake in his query. That’s why it timed out.

I posted the solution in the thread: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/27488#issuecomment-1233088162

Yes, using indexes helped in speed, but it does not solve the problem (we’re going a bit off-topic here).
and yes, I know about the timeout!

The idea was that woocommerce administration part is as slow as it is already and there are users/developers who do not want to add more slow to the usage; especially since the PWM column is useless(no offence) for shop manager / shop owners, only marketing (that usually have no access in the website admin) and developers need that info (for testing/development purposes), I do not contest that this is the only setup, for sure there are other combos, but some of us do not want to add extra info to the, already busy, shop managers OR do not want to add extra processing time (even if it’s minimal).

Hi @rwky,

We totally understand your point.

Nonetheless, I can see that our developer already informed you that he’ll be releasing a new update soon. This will include an option for disabling the new PMW column.

You can check our changelog to be updated to our future releases.

Let me know if you have other questions or concerns.

Regards,
Kenneth

I agree this column is unnecessary on the Orders page. Also, the “PMW pixels not fired – 30d” filter on the orders page is not listing any orders even with this column enabled. It clutters the admin page and is not an actual order status.

Hi @rwky and @itygfma

Today I published a new version that has an option to disable the stats on the order page.

Kind regards
Aleksandar