WooCommerce will Own Your Menu System (with no hope of recovery)

  • WooCommerce takes over your menu system adding Product, My account, Cart menu items, and a checkout Cart logo. That maybe what you want, but maybe not. Funny thing is you can’t turn this stuff off, you can’t edit it out of your menu, and this junk still remains even if you uninstall WooCommerce.

    To my mind interfering with a webmaster’s ability to choose what goes on a menu, and making it infuriatingly difficult to remove, is an utter disgrace.

    If I could give WooCommerce a lower rating than 1 star for this disgraceful perversion of my website (I only wanted to install it to take a look, and build something in an experimental zone and now I have to spend hours trying to work out how to remove it)… then I would.

    Install this at your own risk and if you are fully aware and decided that it is WooCommerce that you want for your online ordering system.

    Signed,
    Disgusted

    PS if anyone else has experience removing this WooCommerce virus… my site includes members only areas and, after installing WC these unmovable menu links only appear to a user who has not logged in to the site. Tricky, because if you have logged in to your site to manage it, and view your homepage, you won’t see these virus-like links on your menu. But after logging out (and therefore accessing your site as a new visitor) the links as described are visible (even after I deleted WooCommerce). Anyone got any suggestions about totally eradicating WooCommerce from my system?

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  • Thread Starter skyrocketcafe

    (@skyrocketcafe)

    Oh, almost forgot to mention… after (partially) uninstalling WooCommerce my Appearance>Customize screen is nothing more than a dead white page.

    Thank you WC for wrecking my website.

    Hi,
    (1) contact your Host, see if they have backups prior to your install of woo. Have them put up the backups, if the date of the backups is appropriate.

    (2) sounds like you’ve run into a module conflict, by the sound of it with your theme.

    (3) best practice is to take lots of backups (code and db), and also to create a staging or test site. There you can install a copy of your production site, and happily play. If a plugin install goes south in your staging site, your production environment is unaffected. You can wipe the slate clean anytime and install a fresh copy of your production site.

    Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley (a11n)

    (@mikejolley)

    I’m not sure if this review is serious… Just in case, are you aware menus are made up of pages (which you can delete), and you can customise whats on menus via Appearance > Menus?

    Plus, the pages are installed when you click the notice telling you it’s going to do so. You clicked it, so you should have been aware unless you didn’t even bother to read?

    Adding pages to the menu has nothing to do with Woocommerce. Yes the plugin adds new pages when you are setting up (and warns you) but you typically need to go into Appearance, Menu to add them there.

    It is more likely that under menus section that there a box ticked which adds pages to the menu automatically. That is a menu function not a Woocommerce one.

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