[Christina]

making this topic due to ongoing confusion in our Discord server and conflicting references on the web…

[Ruth]

WooCommerce Cookies

Store front end:
– woocommerce_cart_hash session Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
– woocommerce_items_in_cart session Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
– wp_woocommerce_session_ 2 days Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer.
– woocommerce_recently_viewed session Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget.
– store_notice[notice id] session Allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice.
No personal information is stored within these cookies.

Store dashboard (/wp-admin):
– woocommerce_snooze_suggestions__[suggestion] 2 days Allows dashboard users to dismiss Marketplace suggestions, if enabled.
– woocommerce_dismissed_suggestions__[context] 1 month Count of suggestion dismissals, if enabled.
– tk_ai session Stores a randomly-generated anonymous ID. This is only used within the dashboard (/wp-admin) area and is used for usage tracking, if enabled.
Questions and support

[Douglas]

old but related:
https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/21944

[Laura]

How to configure caching plugins for WooCommerce

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-woocommerce-cookies-from-the-cache/

these suggest skipping wp_woocommerce_session_ in cache

WooCommerce Window Shopping Caching Technique

but ee only uses unique session ids for that cookie

[Logan]

WP Rocket also suggests skipping that cookie:

https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/1382-never-cache-cookies

[Evelyn]

The EasyEngine approach is what SlickStack also implements, some GitHub users have also used the same approach too. But a few Discord users have complained about conflicts with some WooCommerce add-ons having cache conflicts on the thankyou/order-received page…

e.g. https://gist.github.com/edisoncosta/6d512411921771b38dd8

^^what SlickStack does

[Gregory]

Yesterday we added skip cache to wp_woocommerce_session_ cookies along with the existing session ID logic being appended to requests:

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/commit/0e2d4bdeb95547fb964b13cdeafd466366b85692

[Tyler]

Today we also added store_notice.* and woocommerce_recently_viewed

Note these are only for the “Recent viewed products” widget and store notices in Woo, which are not commonly used, but good to skip anyways:

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/modules/nginx/sites/production.txt

[Jack]

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