WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) – What You Need to Know and Why
WooCommerce has historically stored orders data as specially formatted entries in the standard WordPress post system. Although it sounds odd that order data would be stored alongside your blog posts, everything tied to WordPress core on a structural level is considered a post. It’s important to note that the HPOS change is not related to security; rather, it will allow WooCommerce to store order data more efficiently. WooCommerce began the project in 2022, as a way to separate the data in the site database into more streamlined and performant custom database tables. What is HPOS? Basically, HPOS how WooCommerce will now store orders data – in dedicated tables. Orders in their own tables allows your shop to scale more easily, simplifies your orders data storage, and increases relatability. According to WooCommerce, HPOS will greatly improve […]
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