Woo Product Remover
Delete every WooCommerce product in one click. Batched so it never times out, and it cleans up the data WooCommerce leaves behind.
5.0
(18 ratings)Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Woo Product Remover running.
Tested to 7.1
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.3 days ago
At least 0.2 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.7.4
Your host must be running at least this version.6.5
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A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Woo Product Remover is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
98
out of 100Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
13 / 15Listing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
5.0
18 ratingsWoo Product Remover clears out your entire WooCommerce catalog in one click. It removes products, variations, their metadata and their term relationships, and then cleans up the lookup tables WooCommerce keeps alongside them.
It handles every standard WooCommerce product type, including simple, grouped, external and variable products, plus all of their variations.
Your orders and customers are never touched. Only product data is removed.
Batched, so large catalogs work
Removal runs in batches over AJAX with a progress bar. A store with tens of thousands of products no longer depends on a single PHP request finishing before the server gives up, which is what used to make bulk deletion fail on big catalogs.
It cleans up what WooCommerce leaves behind
Deleting products straight from the database is fast, but modern WooCommerce keeps several tables keyed by product ID. If those are not cleaned, deleted products keep turning up in search, filtering and reports. This plugin clears all of them:
- Product and variation posts, postmeta and term relationships
wc_product_meta_lookupwc_product_attributes_lookupwc_reserved_stockwc_stock_notificationsand its meta tablewc_category_lookup, when categories are removed- Product transients and the object cache
Optional extras
Everything below is off by default, so a normal run only deletes products:
- Product categories, tags and attribute terms
- Product images, including the files in your uploads folder
- Product reviews
- Customer download permissions and download logs
Safe with High-Performance Order Storage
The plugin declares compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS). It only reads and writes product data, so enabling HPOS on your store is unaffected.
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No. The plugin only touches product data. Orders, customers, coupons and settings are left exactly as they are. This is also why it is safe to use with High-Performance Order Storage enabled.
The plugin will tell you there was nothing to remove. It still runs its cleanup pass, which is useful if a previous run was interrupted or if products were deleted some other way and left rows behind.
Only if you tick the box. The default is to keep them, so you do not have to rebuild your category structure just to clear the catalog.
When you do tick it, WooCommerce’s own internal terms are always preserved: the product type terms (simple, grouped, variable, external), the product visibility terms (featured, outofstock, rated-1 through rated-5), and your default product category. Deleting those would break the store rather than clean it.
Only if you tick that box. When you do, images are deleted through WordPress itself so the files and all generated thumbnail sizes are removed from your uploads folder too.
Only images uploaded directly to a product are removed. If a product simply points at an image from your media library that was uploaded elsewhere, that image is left alone.
Very. Removal is done in direct SQL rather than loading each product into memory one at a time, so clearing tens of thousands of products takes seconds rather than hours.
No. Work is split into batches of 200 products per request. If you want to tune that, use the wpr_batch_size filter.
Yes. Because deletion is done in SQL, the usual WordPress and WooCommerce delete hooks do not fire, so the plugin provides its own:
wpr_before_delete_batch— passed the array of IDs about to be deletedwpr_after_delete_batch— passed the array of IDs that were deletedwpr_removal_complete— passed the final counterswpr_batch_size— filter the number of products per requestwpr_product_post_types— filter which post types count as productswpr_term_taxonomies— filter which taxonomies the category option clears
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