WooCommerce: Finding the products in database
I'm creating a website using WooCommerce and I want to restrict the available products to users depending on the postcode that they enter in the search form on my home page.
To be able to achieve that I'll have to specify the conditions of each product within the database in phpMyAdmin, but I can't seem to find it.
Does anybody know where the woocommerce database for products and/or categories are within phpmyAdmin?
Thank you in advance.
Update 2020
Products are located mainly in the following tables:
-
wp_posts
table withpost_type
likeproduct
(orproduct_variation
), -
wp_postmeta
table withpost_id
as relational index (the product ID). -
wp_wc_product_meta_lookup
table withproduct_id
as relational index (the post ID) | Allow fast queries on specific product data (since WooCommerce 3.7) -
wp_wc_order_product_lookup
table withproduct_id
as relational index (the post ID) | Allow fast queries to retrieve products on orders (since WooCommerce 3.7)
Product types, categories, subcategories, tags, attributes and all other custom taxonomies are located in the following tables:
-
wp_terms
-
wp_termmeta
-
wp_term_taxonomy
-
wp_term_relationships
- columnobject_id
as relational index (the product ID) -
wp_woocommerce_termmeta
-
wp_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies
(for product attributes only) -
wp_wc_category_lookup
(for product categories hierarchy only since WooCommerce 3.7)
Product types are handled by custom taxonomy product_type
with the following default terms:
simple
grouped
variable
external
Some other product types for Subscriptions and Bookings plugins:
subscription
variable-subscription
booking
Since Woocommerce 3+ a new custom taxonomy named product_visibility
handle:
- The product visibility with the terms
exclude-from-search
andexclude-from-catalog
- The feature products with the term
featured
- The stock status with the term
outofstock
- The rating system with terms from
rated-1
torated-5
Particular feature: Each product attribute is a custom taxonomy…
References:
- Normal tables: Wordpress database description
- Specific tables: Woocommerce database description
The following tables are store WooCommerce products database :
-
wp_posts -
The core of the WordPress data is the posts. It is stored a
post_type
like product orvariable_product
. -
wp_postmeta-
Each post features information called the meta data and it is stored in the wp_postmeta. Some plugins may add their own information to this table like WooCommerce plugin store
product_id
of product in wp_postmeta table.
Product categories, subcategories stored in this table :
- wp_terms
- wp_termmeta
- wp_term_taxonomy
- wp_term_relationships
- wp_woocommerce_termmeta
following Query Return a list of product categories
SELECT wp_terms.*
FROM wp_terms
LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy ON wp_terms.term_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_id
WHERE wp_term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'product_cat';
for more reference -
- Database Description
- Fetch the Products of Woocommerce from it’s Table in Database
Bulk add new categories to Woo:
Insert category id, name, url key
INSERT INTO wp_terms
VALUES
(57, 'Apples', 'fruit-apples', '0'),
(58, 'Bananas', 'fruit-bananas', '0');
Set the term values as catergories
INSERT INTO wp_term_taxonomy
VALUES
(57, 57, 'product_cat', '', 17, 0),
(58, 58, 'product_cat', '', 17, 0)
17 - is parent category, if there is one
key here is to make sure the wp_term_taxonomy table term_taxonomy_id, term_id are equal to wp_term table's term_id
After doing the steps above go to wordpress admin and save any existing category. This will update the DB to include your bulk added categories