Enabling High Performance Order Storage (HPOS)

NOTE: Support for HPOS is experimental at the moment. These instructions are for testing and development purposes only.

1. Create a new store.
2. Install and setup, WooCommerce, the WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway, and Code Snippets.
3. Go to Snippets → Add new and create a snippet with the following code:

add_action( 'woocommerce_init', function () {
	if ( class_exists('\Automattic\WooCommerce\Utilities\FeaturesUtil') ) {
		\Automattic\WooCommerce\Utilities\FeaturesUtil::allow_enabling_features_with_incompatible_plugins();
		\Automattic\WooCommerce\Utilities\FeaturesUtil::allow_activating_plugins_with_incompatible_features();
	}
});

4. Save the snippet and make sure it's active everywhere.

5. Go to WooCommerce → Settings.
6. Go to Advanced.
7. Go to Features.
8. Enable the High-Performance Order Storage (COT) feature and click Save changes.

9. Go to Custom data stores.
10. If you see a warning saying "There are orders pending sync!":
    • Enable Keep the posts table and the orders tables synchronized and click Save changes. The warning will say synchronization is in progress.
    • Wait for ~1 minute and then reload the page. Repeat until the warning goes away.

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11. Enable Use the WooCommerce orders tables, make sure Keep the posts table and the orders tables synchronized is disabled, and click Save changes.