Duplicate WooCommerce Orders: Causes and a Permanent Fix
Customers charged twice or two orders for one purchase. How the checkout creates orders, the retries and webhook overlaps that duplicate them, and the fix.
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Checkout: what we have had to fix
14 write-ups from production, newest first. Each one is a problem hit on a real project and how it was diagnosed and fixed.
Payment Gateway Missing From the Checkout Block: A Diagnosis
A gateway is enabled and absent from the checkout. The decision tree: block support, availability rules, currency and country, SSL, JavaScript errors, caching.
Faster WooCommerce Checkout: Scripts, Fragments, Cart API
The checkout is the page a cache cannot help. Where WooCommerce checkout time goes, the scripts and cart fragments that slow it, and the fixes that work.
WooCommerce Email Deliverability: SPF, DKIM and SMTP
Why WooCommerce order emails land in spam or vanish, the SPF, DKIM and DMARC records that fix it, and how to move store mail off the web server.
Stripe Webhooks in WooCommerce: Orders Stuck On Hold
Payments succeed in Stripe but WooCommerce orders stay on hold. How the webhook flow works, why signatures fail, and a diagnostic that finds the break fast.
WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery Without a Bloated Plugin
How abandoned cart recovery works in WooCommerce, what heavy plugins cost in checkout speed, and a lean build using the checkout block and transactional email.
WooCommerce HPOS Migration Checklist: Test, Break, Roll Back
A working checklist for moving a live WooCommerce store to HPOS: what breaks, the queries to grep for, how to test on staging, and how to roll back.
WooCommerce Checkout Block Creating Duplicate Orders
WooCommerce checkout block placing the same order twice and charging cards twice? Here is why the second submit fires and the idempotency fix that holds.
WooCommerce Checkout Block Custom Validation Not Firing Fix
WooCommerce checkout block ignoring your validation hook? Here is why classic filters silently skip the block and the fix that actually blocks bad orders.
WooCommerce Cart Block Empty After Login: Session Fix
WooCommerce cart block goes empty after a guest logs in mid-checkout? Here is what corrupts the session merge during login and the fix that restores items.
WooCommerce Coupon Not Applying on Checkout Block: Fix
WooCommerce coupon not applying on the checkout block? Fix the silent validation failure, missing apply_coupon hook, and Store API rejection with code.
WooCommerce Checkout Shipping Rates Not Showing: Fix
WooCommerce Checkout Block hiding shipping rates at the address step? Fix the broken store API call, session handle, and shipping zone match with code.
WooCommerce "Sorry, This Product Cannot Be Purchased" Fix
WooCommerce throwing "Sorry, this product cannot be purchased" at checkout? The eight real causes and the working fix for each, with WP-CLI debug code.
WooCommerce Checkout Block Payment Methods Missing: Fix
WooCommerce Checkout Block showing no payment methods after 9.x? Fix missing Stripe, PayPal, and COD options by enabling block support and cache rules.
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