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Find and trash specific orders
Locate and trash all orders matching a specific status and name or email address in batches of 500. Very useful after a credit card guessing attack has left unauthorized/uncharged orders behind. Then manually empty the trash and if times out, return and repeat until clean. Most servers can empty around 500 orders at a time before timeouts are reached, but this varies by site.
Consider our free Woo Prune Orders plugin for trashing orders by status and date limit.
add_action( 'admin_notices', function() {
// Selection Criteria
$args = [
'billing_first_name' => 'John',
'billing_email' => '[email protected]',
'billing_last_name' => 'Smith',
'limit' => 500,
'status' => [ 'wc-failed', 'wc-cancelled' ],
];
// Query Orders
$orders = wc_get_orders( $args );
// Print Size Or Bail
if( is_countable( $orders ) ) {
printf( '<p>Batch size %d orders:</p>', sizeof( $orders ) );
} else {
echo wpautop( 'No orders found' );
return;
}
// Loop Them
foreach( $orders as $order ) {
// Print Order Numbers
echo $order->get_id() . ' ';
// Trash Them
$order->delete();
}
} );Instructions for Find and trash specific orders
- Log into a staging or locally hosted clone of your site.
- Install and activate Code Snippets plugin.
- WP Admin > Snippets > Add New
- Copy and paste the code from the section above.
- Check to ensure formatting came over properly.
- Customize the code as desired.
- Add a meaningful title.
- Select whether to run on front-end or back-end (or both).
- Click “Save and Activate”.
- Test your site to ensure it works.
- Disable if any problems, or recover.
- Repeat for live environment.
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