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Wordpress and product with more than 200 variation


I have a huge problem and i hope I can find a solution here. In wordpress we have a product that has 3 type of variation HEIGHT: 15 yard LENGTH: 50Y 25Y 15Y 10Y 5Y 1Y With this variation wordpress work smoothly, but now we want to regroup the product (that now are a single product for Color) in one and add another variation for the colors. So we have a 36 different color and when I add all those variation in the final product page the time to load a single Color with the Color Swatch is like 10 second. Is this a limit for wordpress ? A better server could reduce the time to load ? Or we need to move to another platform like opencart or Magento ? If there is something we can do with wordpress would be awesome. Thanks


Solution

  • product variations in WooCommerce are treated as "child products" linked to the parent one.

    Technically speaking, they are like different products and loading/querying a product with lots of variations usually slows down the website performances.

    I doubt that a better server can significantly improve this, so if you wanna keep it on WordPress/WooCommerce the ideal solution would be to create 36 different products, one for each color.

    200 variations should not be a problem on Magento, but if you go up with the number, queries can start "bottlenecking" and PHP memory can also be a problem.

    Hope this helps :)