How to automatically delete old WooCommerce orders?

WooCommerce-Auto-Delete-Old-Orders-Plugin - Mini Plugins

Would you like to automatically delete old WooCommerce orders? Old orders might be redundant and consume memory in your database. So, it’s a wise move to remove all redundant orders from the WordPress database. You can manually delete the old orders, but it takes time and is a hassle every day for you.

Let’s use the plugin for this. It’s a simple, set and forget WordPress plugin with no bloat whatsoever.

Get Started with WC Auto Delete Old Orders Plugin now. It automatically takes control of the old orders. You just install and the plugin takes your care.

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How does the plugin work?

The plugin automatically deletes old orders (orders older than 3 months by default, customizable in Settings). It uses the Action Scheduler to schedule the deletion. Every 5 minutes it checks if any order is older than 3 months (or specified in settings). Then it deletes maximum of 10 orders in an 5 minutes interval. So, you won’t be facing timeout in case of large number of orders.

You can see the tasks in Tools > Scheduled Actions, search for “wc_delete_old_orders_process”.

Settings

In the WooCommerce > Settings > General, you can set how many months old orders you want to get automatically deleted.

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Sanjeev Aryal

Sanjeev Aryal is the creative mind behind Mini Plugins, a brand dedicated to developing lightweight, efficient WordPress plugins. He also writes occasionally and contributes to WordPress community.

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5 responses to “How to automatically delete old WooCommerce orders?”

Mauro Gonçalves

February 19, 2024

Very good code! Thanks for sharing it. Is it possible to change this to delete orders that have already been cancelled? What to change in the code?

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Carlos Vesta

April 9, 2023

I’m using the plugin, but it only deletes 3 orders per action.
How should I delete all orders for these 3 months?

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1. Sanjeev Aryal
  
  April 17, 2023
  
  Hi Carlos, if you have so many old orders, the PHP script will time out before it could delete all order at once. Maybe you can just run the process in a 5 minutes interval than in a day?
  
  Hope that will help!
  
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Julian Grippo

March 29, 2023

hi? how are you?

i need help trying to implement this code to bookings of woocommerce

”
heres is the code:
”
public function process_delete() {
if ( ! function_exists( ‘get_wc_booking’ ) ) {
return;
}
$args = array(
‘date’ => ‘update_status(‘completed’);
\wp_update_post( $booking ->get_id() );
}
}
}
“”
and this is the order code thats work
“”
public function process_delete() {
if ( ! function_exists( ‘wc_get_orders’ ) ) {
return;
}
$args = array(
‘date_created’ => ‘update_status(‘completed’);
\wp_delete_post( $order->get_id() );
}
}
“”
I don’t know what’s wrong, if it’s a misspelled function or what.

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1. Sanjeev Aryal
  
  April 17, 2023
  
  Hi Julian, thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, it’s hard to debug without details on the booking plugin you’re using.
  
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