Okay, let’s try to figure out what’s going on here. The user is interacting with a WordPress site using WP-CLI commands related to WooCommerce’s HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage). There’s some confusion and errors popping up as they try to sync and clean up orders. Let me walk through the log step by step.

First, they ran `wp wc hpos verify_data –verbose`, which worked initially but after some operations, it started warning there were no orders to verify. Then they tried to clean up with `–force` and `–verbose` flags but got errors about unrecognized parameters. Then they synced orders without any flags, which worked. But after syncing, the status shows 0 unsynced orders and 26 to clean up. After cleaning up, the status flips back to 26 unsynced orders. That’s confusing.

Wait, after cleanup, the unsynced orders go back to 26? That suggests maybe the cleanup is removing data from HPOS, but the sync is moving data from the posts table to HPOS. So if they sync (moving to HPOS), then cleanup (deleting from posts), but then somehow the next status shows unsynced again. Maybe there’s a loop here. Perhaps when they ran cleanup, it removed the posts table entries, but then the sync is trying to sync again, but since the posts are gone, maybe HPOS isn’t properly holding the data? Or maybe the cleanup is not working as intended.

Looking at the commands: after syncing, `wp wc hpos status` shows unsynced orders as 0, so the sync worked. Then they run `wp wc hpos cleanup all –force`, which deletes the posts table entries. Then checking status again, the unsynced orders are back to 26. That seems odd. Unless the cleanup is somehow causing the HPOS data to be lost, which it shouldn’t. Wait, no—HPOS is supposed to be the new storage. Cleanup should remove the old posts table data. So after sync and cleanup, the orders should be only in HPOS. But then why does the status show 26 unsynced orders again? That might mean that after cleanup, the system is detecting that HPOS is missing those orders, which shouldn’t be the case. Or maybe there’s a misconfiguration where HPOS isn’t properly enabled, so after cleanup, the orders are gone from both places?

Wait, in the last status check after cleanup, it says HPOS enabled: yes. So compatibility mode is off. So the site should be using HPOS exclusively. But if they cleaned up the posts table, and then the next sync finds 26 orders to sync again, that suggests that the HPOS table might not have the orders. So maybe the sync is not actually moving data to HPOS properly. Or perhaps there’s a caching issue. Alternatively, maybe when they ran the cleanup, it’s removing the HPOS data instead of the posts table? That would be a problem.

Looking at the command `wp wc hpos cleanup all –force`: according to WooCommerce docs, the cleanup command should remove the posts table entries once the data is safely in HPOS. So after a successful sync, cleanup should delete the old posts. But if after cleanup, the unsynced orders go back up, that implies that the orders are now only in the posts table again, which shouldn’t happen. Unless the cleanup is not working as expected. Maybe there’s a bug in the cleanup command, or the sync didn’t actually copy the data properly.

Another angle: when they first verified data, it found 26 orders. Then after cleanup and sync, maybe the orders are being recreated in the posts table somehow. But with HPOS enabled and compatibility mode off, that shouldn’t happen. Unless there’s a plugin or code that’s still writing to the posts table. But the user’s steps don’t mention that.

Alternatively, the user might be running these commands in a loop without understanding the correct workflow. The correct process is: enable HPOS, sync orders (copy from posts to HPOS), verify, then cleanup (delete from posts). If after cleanup, the sync command is run again, it would look for orders in posts table, but they’ve been deleted, so it would find 0. But in the user’s case, after cleanup, the sync finds 26 again. That suggests that the posts table still has the orders even after cleanup. But the cleanup command reported success. So maybe the cleanup didn’t actually delete them.

Wait, the user did run `wp wc hpos cleanup all –force` twice. The first time it cleaned 26 orders. Then after syncing again, they had to clean up again. But why did the unsynced orders go back to 26 after a sync? Let me check the exact sequence:

1. After first cleanup: Success: Cleanup completed for 26 orders.

2. Then they ran `wp wc hpos verify_data –verbose` which warned no orders to verify.

3. Then `wp wc hpos status` shows Unsynced orders: 26. Wait, how? After cleanup, the posts table entries are deleted. So if compatibility mode is off, and HPOS is enabled, the orders should be in HPOS only. So why are there unsynced orders again?

Wait, maybe “unsynced” refers to orders that exist in the posts table but not in HPOS. So after cleanup (deleting posts), there should be 0 unsynced. But here, after cleanup, the status shows 26 unsynced. That implies the posts table still has 26 orders. Which would mean the cleanup didn’t work. But the command said it succeeded. That’s a contradiction.

Possible reasons:

– The cleanup command didn’t actually delete the posts table entries. Maybe a permissions issue? Or the user is running the command in the wrong environment.

– The cleanup command is deleting from HPOS instead of the posts table. But that’s not how it’s supposed to work.

– There’s a misunderstanding in what “unsynced” means. Maybe after cleanup, the system is checking HPOS against another source.

Wait, looking at WooCommerce’s HPOS documentation, the `wp wc hpos status` command shows:

– HPOS enabled: yes

– Compatibility mode: no

– Unsynced orders: number of orders in posts table not present in HPOS

– Orders subject to cleanup: orders in HPOS that can be deleted (if using HPOS exclusively and compatibility is off)

So after syncing, orders are copied from posts to HPOS. Then cleanup deletes the posts table entries. So after cleanup, unsynced orders should be 0. But in the user’s case, after cleanup, the status shows 26 unsynced. That suggests that the posts table still has 26 orders. Which would mean the cleanup didn’t delete them. But why?

Looking at the command outputs:

After first sync and cleanup:

[mnrdjmke@premium63 public_html]$ wp wc hpos sync –force

… synced 26 orders.

Then status shows Unsynced: 0, cleanup: 26.

Then they run cleanup:

wp wc hpos cleanup all –force

… cleans 26 orders.

Then status shows Unsynced: 26, cleanup: 0.

Wait, that doesn’t make sense. After cleanup, the unsynced orders should be 0, because the posts table entries are gone. So if after cleanup, Unsynced is 26, that implies that there are 26 orders in the posts table that are not in HPOS. But if we just did a sync, that should have copied them over. Then cleanup would delete the posts entries. So why are they still there?

Alternatively, maybe the cleanup is deleting the HPOS entries instead of the posts. But that would be a major issue. But according to the command, `wp wc hpos cleanup` is supposed to delete the posts table data.

Another possibility: the user is running these commands in a different environment each time. For example, maybe they’re sometimes connected via SSH and sometimes not, or different directories. But looking at the logs, the user is consistently on the server (premium63) in public_html.

Wait, in the initial part, the user tried to run `wc hpos verify_data –verbose` but got errors because `wc` is a command-line tool for word count, not WooCommerce. Then they realized and used `wp wc hpos` commands. So that part is resolved.

The crux is the loop between sync and cleanup. After syncing and cleaning up, the unsynced orders reappear. That suggests that either:

1. The sync command is not correctly copying data to HPOS, so after cleanup, the orders are gone from both tables. But then where are the 26 unsynced orders coming from? Unless the orders are being recreated in the posts table somehow.

2. The cleanup command is not deleting the posts table entries, so after sync (which copies to HPOS), cleanup fails to delete posts, leading the next sync to see them again.

How to test: after running cleanup, check the posts table directly in the database to see if the orders are still there. If yes, then cleanup failed. If no, then the status command is incorrect.

Alternatively, there’s a caching layer, like object caching, causing the status command to report incorrect numbers.

Another angle: the user might have HPOS enabled but the compatibility mode is on. Wait, in the status output, compatibility mode is “no”. So the site is using HPOS exclusively. Therefore, after cleanup, the orders should exist only in HPOS. But if the sync command is somehow pulling from another source, or the cleanup is not working, then this loop happens.

Possible solution: Make sure that after sync and cleanup, the orders are present in HPOS and absent from the posts table. The user can check the database directly.

For example, to check posts table:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘shop_order’;

And check HPOS tables (like wp_wc_orders):

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_wc_orders;

If after cleanup, the posts table still has orders, then the cleanup didn’t work. If they’re in both tables, then sync didn’t copy correctly. If they’re only in HPOS, then the status command is incorrect in reporting unsynced.

Another thing: The user might have a custom setup where orders are being created in the posts table even after HPOS is enabled. For example, a plugin or custom code that bypasses HPOS. But with compatibility mode off, that shouldn’t happen.

Alternatively, the user might be running these commands in the wrong order. The correct order is:

1. Enable HPOS.

2. Sync orders (copy from posts to HPOS).

3. Verify data.

4. Cleanup (delete from posts).

If they run cleanup before sync, they lose data. But in the user’s case, they did sync then cleanup, which should be correct.

Wait, after the first cleanup, they ran `wp wc hpos verify_data` and got a warning that there are no orders to verify. Then the status showed 26 unsynced. That suggests that after cleanup, the orders are no longer in HPOS. But that can’t be right unless the cleanup deleted HPOS data, which it shouldn’t.

Wait, maybe the user has a misunderstanding of the commands. Let me check WooCommerce’s documentation for `wp wc hpos cleanup`.

According to WooCommerce’s docs, the `cleanup` command removes the order data from the traditional posts table once you’ve verified that the data in HPOS is correct. So it deletes from the posts table, not HPOS. Therefore, after a successful cleanup, the posts table should have no orders, and HPOS should have all orders. Therefore, `wp wc hpos status` should show 0 unsynced orders (since posts are gone) and 0 to cleanup.

But in the user’s case, after cleanup, the unsynced orders go back to 26. That can only happen if the posts table still has those 26 orders. So the cleanup didn’t work. But the command said it succeeded. Why?

Possible reasons:

– Permissions: The MySQL user used by WordPress doesn’t have permission to delete from the posts table.

– There are database triggers or foreign key constraints preventing deletion.

– The cleanup command has a bug.

Alternatively, the user might be running the cleanup command without the necessary parameters. Let’s check the exact command used: `wp wc hpos cleanup all –force`. The `all` parameter specifies that all order types should be cleaned up, and `–force` bypasses confirmation. That should work.

But according to the command output, after cleanup, the status shows unsynced as 26. So the posts table still has those orders. How?

Wait, perhaps the cleanup command is deleting from HPOS instead of the posts table. That would explain why after cleanup, the HPOS data is gone, and the next sync copies from posts to HPOS again. But that would mean the cleanup command is backwards. That seems unlikely, but possible.

Alternatively, the user’s environment has a misconfigured HPOS setup where the tables are not correctly set up, leading to data not being stored properly.

Another test: After running the sync, check if the HPOS tables have the orders. Then after cleanup, check if the posts table is empty. If the posts are still there, then the cleanup failed. If they’re gone, but the status still reports unsynced, then the status command is faulty.

In the user’s case, they might not have direct database access, but they can use WP-CLI to check. For example:

To count posts table orders:

wp db query “SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘shop_order’;”

To count HPOS orders:

wp db query “SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_wc_orders;”

After sync, HPOS should have 26, posts have 26. After cleanup, posts should have 0. If that’s not the case, then there’s an issue.

Alternatively, the user could have a different table prefix. But assuming they’re using the default, the above should work.

Another possibility: The HPOS tables are not properly created. The user should verify that the tables like wp_wc_orders exist and have data.

If the HPOS tables don’t exist, then syncing would copy to nowhere, and cleanup would delete the posts, leading to data loss. But the user didn’t report that; instead, the orders reappear as unsynced.

Hmm. This is tricky. Let’s summarize the steps the user took and the outcomes:

1. Synced orders: 26 orders moved to HPOS. Status shows 0 unsynced, 26 to cleanup.

2. Cleanup: Deleted 26 from posts. Status shows 26 unsynced, 0 to cleanup.

3. Sync again: 26 orders moved to HPOS. Cleanup again deletes 26 from posts.

4. Status again shows 26 unsynced.

This loop suggests that every time they cleanup, the posts table orders reappear. But that’s impossible unless something is recreating them.

Wait, if compatibility mode is off, WooCommerce should not be writing to the posts table. So why are there orders in the posts table after cleanup? Unless something else is adding them.

Possible culprits:

– A plugin that creates orders in the posts table despite HPOS being enabled.

– A cron job or external system that imports orders into the posts table.

– Database replication or a backup restore that’s repopulating the posts table.

Alternatively, the cleanup is not deleting the posts but just marking them as something else. Or the posts are of a different post type.

Wait, the cleanup command targets `shop_order` post types. If there are other post types or if the posts are not actually orders, that might not be the case. But the user had 26 orders to cleanup, which matches the sync count.

Another angle: The `wp wc hpos sync` command might be copying orders from HPOS back to the posts table, but that’s not how it should work. The sync is supposed to copy from posts to HPOS, not the other way around.

Wait, checking WooCommerce’s documentation: The `sync` command synchronizes data between the posts table and the HPOS tables. It copies data from the posts table to HPOS. So after a sync, HPOS should have all the orders from posts. Then cleanup removes the posts entries. If the sync is run again after cleanup, there should be nothing to sync. But in the user’s case, after cleanup, running sync again finds 26 orders to sync. That implies the posts table has 26 orders again. So where are they coming from?

This is perplexing. The user needs to check if the posts table actually has those orders after cleanup. If they do, then the cleanup command isn’t working. If they don’t, then the status command is incorrect.

Another possibility is that the orders are stored in a different format or there’s a multisite setup where the commands are affecting the wrong site. But the user’s commands don’t indicate multisite.

Alternatively, caching: Maybe the counts are cached, and the status command isn’t reflecting the real database state. The user can try running `wp cache flush` before checking the status.

In conclusion, the user is stuck in a loop where syncing copies orders to HPOS, cleanup claims to delete them from posts, but then the next sync finds them again. The likely issues are either:

1. Cleanup isn’t actually deleting the posts table entries.

2. Something is recreating the posts table entries after cleanup.

3. A bug in WooCommerce’s HPOS implementation causing incorrect status reports.

To troubleshoot, the user should:

– Check the posts table directly after cleanup to see if orders are still present.

– Verify that the HPOS tables have the correct data.

– Ensure no plugins or processes are recreating orders in the posts table.

– Flush any caching mechanisms.

– Consider reinstalling or updating WooCommerce in case of a bug.

If the posts table is indeed empty after cleanup but the status still reports unsynced orders, there might be a bug in the status command. Alternatively, if the posts table still has orders, the cleanup command is failing, possibly due to permissions or database issues.

The issue arises from a loop where orders reappear in the posts table after cleanup, indicating either the cleanup isn’t deleting them or they’re bei..,