{"id":4353,"date":"2020-03-30T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce\/after-the-migration-the-ids-of-the-products-are-not-the-same-like-the-source-site\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:38:37","slug":"after-the-migration-the-ids-of-the-products-are-not-the-same-like-the-source-site","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/after-the-migration-the-ids-of-the-products-are-not-the-same-like-the-source-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible to keep the same ID&#8217;s of products on WooCommerce after migration?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, LitExtension cannot preserve the original product IDs when <a href=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/woocommerce-migration-tool.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">migrating to WooCommerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WooCommerce stores products, orders, pages, blog posts, and other content in the same WordPress database table, distinguishing them by post type, such as <code>product<\/code> or <code>shop_order<\/code>. Since every record must have a unique post ID, WooCommerce automatically assigns new IDs to migrated products to prevent conflicts with existing content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This does not affect the migrated product data or how products appear on the storefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you have any other questions, please email us at\u00a0<strong>litextension@support.litextension.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[3648,3647,1349],"class_list":["post-4353","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-keep-products-ids","doc_tag-products-ids","doc_tag-woocommerce-migration"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7952,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4353\/revisions\/7952"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/21"}],"prev":[{"title":"Why do customers have to select product options before checkout in WooCommerce after migration?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/require-option-selections-before-allowing-checkout-2\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}