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Latest guides
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WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers: Why IDs Skip and How to Fix It
WooCommerce order numbers are database IDs, shared with posts, products, refunds and checkout drafts, so they jump. You cannot make the ID sequential, but you can change the number customers see — and there are three places where that change has to be honoured.
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WooCommerce BOGO: Buy One Get One Free Without Breaking the Cart
WooCommerce coupons discount items; they cannot say "buy two, get the cheaper one free". The usual workaround discounts the most expensive item instead, and the fix is either a few lines of fee code or a coupon tool that understands buy X get Y.
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WooCommerce Google Shopping: Product Feeds for Merchant Center
Google Shopping, Meta catalogs and TikTok all read the same thing: a product feed. WooCommerce does not generate one, so the real choices are which channels you need, how the feed stays in sync, and which product data you fill in first.
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WooCommerce Request a Quote: Replacing the Price With a Quote
Hiding a price and swapping the button for a form takes two filters. Turning a quote into an order the customer can pay for is the part WooCommerce only does by hand, and it decides whether the setup is worth building.
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WooCommerce Gift Cards and Store Credit: How They Work
WooCommerce has coupons, not gift cards. A coupon can imitate a gift card for one purchase, but a balance that survives partial use, an email to a recipient and refunds as store credit are what separate the two.
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How to Export and Import WordPress Users and WooCommerce Customers
WordPress has no user exporter: Tools › Export only carries the authors of posts, without passwords or roles. Here is what core, WooCommerce Analytics and WP-CLI can give you, and how to move users so they can still log in.