If you manage a WooCommerce store, you’ll like need to bulk update or modify a large number of orders, subscriptions, products or customer records at some point. Writing a WP CLI script can be a quick and easy way to do this.
In this video I show how to export products into a CSV using WP CLI and the command wp eval-file, but the general concepts can be used to loop over any resource you may want to export, modify or delete.
Continue readingOne morning I woke up to find 20,000 new fraudulent orders on a WooCommerce site I manage. The vast majority of them were in failed status, but a few had successfully completed. We quickly determined this was a card testing attack, where a fraudster was using an automated system to iterate through a huge amount of stolen credit card numbers to check out on our site and determine which ones were still valid.
The biggest concern with this type of attack is that your credit card processor may stop processing payments from your site altogether due to fraud concerns, which means the business is dead until you can find a new payment processor.
As soon as we noticed the fraud, we alerted our payment processor and let them know we were taking steps to stop the attack and refund the fraudulent orders- which I think was helpful for keeping our account in good status.
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