WARNING: Do not install if you are using WooCommerce Multilingual/WPML!

  • rubytech

    (@rubytech)


    7 years ago

    Forget about this plugin if you are using WooCommerce Multilingual and WPML to translate products!

    We installed this plugin, activated it and never used it. However, it wiped variants on our most popular (translated) products and it took us quite long to find the cause. In other words, this plugin has cost us a fortune in revenue (the translated language is our most profitable marked).

    More detailed explanation: The plugin changed the post_type (in wp_posts) on variants to ‘product’ from ‘product_variation’ without any action taken from our side. Simply activating the plugin corrupts your database.

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  • Plugin Author John James Jacoby

    (@johnjamesjacoby)

    First, sorry to hear you had a problem with this.

    I’ve dug into the issue, and ultimately it came down to some plugins (like WPML, and others) do something they really shouldn’t, which is call update_post() (sometimes multiple times) inside of an existing update_post() call.

    Version 3.1.0 of Post Switcher predicts this unsafe condition, and avoids updating those secondary posts.

    Simply activating the plugin corrupts your database

    This is 100% untrue. Nothing happens on activation, at all.

    It’s no surprise the issue happened because of WPML.
    They have improved recently, but on average their codebase is still very bug-prone.

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