MySql – South Coast Hosting Services (Pty) Ltd

SELECT pm.meta_value AS city,p.ID as order_id,p.post_excerpt as
customer_note,p.post_date as order_date,pm2.meta_value as
suburb,pm3.meta_value as customer_id,
pm4.meta_value as sender_email,
pm5.meta_value as sender_firstname,
pm6.meta_value as sender_lastname
FROM wp_posts p
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta pm ON p.ID = pm.post_id
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta pm2 ON p.ID = pm2.post_id
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta pm3 ON p.ID = pm3.post_id
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta pm4 ON p.ID = pm4.post_id
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta pm5 ON p.ID = pm5.post_id
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta pm6 ON p.ID = pm6.post_id
WHERE p.post_type='shop_order'
AND p.post_status='wc-completed'
AND pm.meta_key='_shipping_address_2' AND pm.meta_value='Durban'
AND pm2.meta_key='_shipping_city'
AND pm3.meta_key='_customer_user'
AND pm4.meta_key='_billing_email'
AND pm5.meta_key='_billing_first_name'
AND pm6.meta_key='_billing_last_name'
ORDER BY p.post_date DESC

This SQL string will extract multiple meta values from an order.

Covers WordPress version 5.3.2

No matter how you use the SQL, be it on the command line, PhpMyAdmin or PHP, These are just the SQL commands needed.

There are 4 tables invlovled not counting the variable product data. I’ll be adding that as soon as a get a free moment.

wp_posts
wp_postmeta
wp_woocommerce_order_items
wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta

wp_posts are where the main orders are kepts, with the post_id being the actual order ID. The other 3 tables use this id to attach items, customer details, etc to the order.

wp_postmeta contains the customer data.

wp_woocommerce_order_items contains the items that are ordered.

wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta contains the price, etc of the items ordered.

So, on to the SQL by example

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type="shop_order"  and date(post_date)=date("2020-02-25")

The main thing is the “shop_order” post type. If you leve out the date part of the SQL then obviously you will get all orders in the database. If using PhpMyAdmin you can then simply export the results, os CLI pipe to a file, whatever, saving the data into something like wp_posts.sql

Now assuming a list of orders with post_id’s of 11538, 11541,11542, 11543, 11533, 11534, 11535, 11536, 11537, 11539, 11540 was resturned. We need to get all the info for those numbers starting with wp_postmeta.

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type="shop_order"  and date(post_date)=date("2020-02-25")

Save the results to wp_postmeta.sql.

SELECT * FROM wp_woocommerce_order_items WHERE order_id in (11538,11541,11542,11543,11533,11534,11535,11536,11537,11539,11540)

This will give us the items ordered, so save teh results to wp_woocommerce_order_items.sql.

SELECT * FROM wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta WHERE order_item_id in (11538,11541,11542,11543,11533,11534,11535,11536,11537,11539,11540)

And save these results to wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta.sql.

So now we have 4 sql files containing the orders and order data that we want to import, possibly on another server. The assumption at this point is the users exist already, otherwise you will have to export the users as well which is beyond the scope of this blog.

If would/could be a very, very bad idea so simply import as it, as chances are the key values are already in use.

The plan therefore is simple, edit the .sql files and change them to a number higher that what exists in the database you are importing to.

So you would change the post_id in the first file, then edit the second file to point to the new numbers you created, as well as create new meta_id values, and so forth. All the id numbers in the 4 files must match up.

Then you can simply import the 4 files into the new database, and there you go, your orders have been imported.

Summary

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type="shop_order"  and date(post_date)=date("2020-02-25")

SELECT * FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id in (11538,11541,11542,11543,11533,11534,11535,11536,11537,11539,11540)

SELECT * FROM wp_woocommerce_order_items WHERE order_id in (11538,11541,11542,11543,11533,11534,11535,11536,11537,11539,11540,11545)

SELECT * FROM wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta WHERE order_item_id in (11538,11541,11542,11543,11533,11534,11535,11536,11537,11539,11540,11545)

Thank you for your time, I hope this helps.