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  • Subscriptions PayPal IPN Issues

    WooCommerce Subscriptions uses PayPal’s IPN (Instant Payment Notification) system to keep data in sync with PayPal. When PayPal processes a payment or other subscription event, like a cancellation, it sends an IPN to the site. Subscriptions processes this IPN and performs the appropriate actions concerning the related orders and subscriptions. For example, when a recurring […]

  • Subscriptions 2.0 Deprecated Hooks & Query Monitor Warning

    Subscriptions 2.0 changed the way data was stored and instantiated. Because of this, it needed to deprecate a large number of existing hooks. Some of these hooks had dynamic names, i.e. actions/filters where we don’t know what the hook actually is at run-time because it includes a payment gateway ID or another piece of dynamic data we […]

  • Subscriptions v2.0: Database Upgrade Process for v1.5 to v2.0

    To migrate stores using Subscriptions v1.5 to the new architecture of v2.0, Subscriptions uses a database upgrade script. This script will create a new ‘shop_subscription’ post for each subscription on the site and then migrate all meta data relating to a subscription from the original order used to purchase the subscription to the new ‘shop_subscription’ […]