Session Shredder for WooCommerce vs PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce

Session Shredder is a production-grade, rule-based session cleanup plugin for WooCommerce 10.3+. WooCommerce 10.3 introduces experimental guest session storage and auto-pruning. Session Shredder builds directly on this already available foundation and adds behavior-based heuristics that predict which sessions are zombies (safe to prune) versus keepers (should be retained). Highlights – Heuristic pruning – Uses anonymized features (session age, pageviews, cart value, etc.) and conservative rules to identify low-value sessions. – Configurable rules & thresholds – Tune base age, hard timeout, bounce detection, and cart-protection rules from a dedicated WooCommerce settings screen. – Safe thresholds – Only considers sessions past a base age window and is biased towards keeping anything that shows meaningful activity or cart value. – Robust behavior – Even if tracking data is sparse, a conservative rule-based strategy kicks in (e.g. hard 72h timeout, bounces with no cart value). – Privacy-first – No PII is stored. Session IDs and countries are hashed; only coarse behavioral data is used. – Native Woo 10.3 integration – Reads from the WooCommerce session table (supports both legacy and new tables) and plays nicely with the core experimental pruning. – HPOS compatible – Declares compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (custom order tables) and never touches orders, only session data. – Admin dashboard – Under WooCommerce → Session Shredder you get active sessions, pruned counts, a Chart.js visualization of active & pruned sessions per run, and a compact “Recent runs” summary. – Logging & observability – Uses wc_get_logger() for info/error logging; integrates cleanly with existing WooCommerce logs. Session Shredder is structured for real-world stores and designed as a companion to WooCommerce’s experimental guest session engine. It stays fully rule-based out of the box, but developers can extend it via hooks if they ever want to plug in external scoring services or AI endpoints. Why not rely only on the WooCommerce experimental pruning? – Core experimental pruning is largely age-based and opaque. – Session Shredder adds behavior-aware rules (pageviews, cart value, bounce flag) on top of age. – You get a dry-run mode to analyze impact before deleting anything. – The dashboard gives you visibility into how many sessions were pruned per run and how many sessions remained active. – WP-CLI commands let you script and automate analyze/prune runs. – It works alongside WooCommerce experimental guest sessions and HPOS rather than replacing them: Woo can still prune based on its own rules, while Session Shredder adds a tunable, rule-based layer with better reporting. How It Works Feature collection – On each page load, Session Shredder tracks session activity: – Session age (hours since first seen) – Pageviews count – Cart value (numeric) – Whether anything was added to cart – Geolocation hash (hashed billing/shipping country) – Simple bounce indicator (single pageview, no cart) – Features are stored per-session in non-autoloaded options and never include raw session IDs or user identifiers. Rule-based pruning – An hourly cron (session_shredder_cron) scans the WooCommerce session table for candidates based on age. – For each candidate, the plugin: – Loads stored features – Applies conservative rules like: – Session older than a hard timeout window (e.g. 72 hours) – Single pageview and no cart value – If the rules deem the session a low-value “zombie”, it is pruned. Stats & visualization – After each real run, Session Shredder records: – Total pruned sessions (lifetime and today) – A short history of recent runs, including how many sessions were pruned and how many remained active before/after each run – The admin dashboard renders a Chart.js line graph of active & pruned sessions per run via a secure AJAX endpoint, plus a compact “Recent runs” table. For developers Session Shredder exposes a small set of hooks and CLI commands so you can integrate it into more advanced workflows without forking the plugin. Hooks – session_shredder_features( array $features, string $session_hash ) – Filter the behavior feature array before it is stored and later used for pruning decisions. – $session_hash is a hashed identifier of the session (no raw IDs or PII). – session_shredder_base_age_hours( float $base_age_hours ) – Adjust the base age window (in hours) before sessions are considered as prune candidates. – session_shredder_should_prune( bool $should_prune, array $features ) – Override or refine the core rule-based decision for a given session. – session_shredder_feature_options_soft_limit( int $soft_limit ) – Adjust the soft cap for how many per-session feature options (session_shredder_features_*) are kept in wp_options before garbage collection trims the oldest entries. – session_shredder_feature_options_gc_batch( int $batch_size ) – Adjust how many feature options are removed per garbage-collection pass when the soft limit is exceeded. Larger values clean up faster; smaller values spread work over more runs. – session_shredder_before_run( float $base_age_hours, bool $dry_run ) – Fires before a prune run (cron, manual, or CLI) starts. – session_shredder_after_run( int $pruned_count, bool $dry_run ) – Fires after a prune run completes (dry-run or real). – session_shredder_pruned( int $pruned_count ) – Fires after a real prune run that actually deletes sessions; useful for logging or additional cleanup. WP-CLI commands If WP-CLI is available, Session Shredder registers the following commands: – wp session-shredder analyze – Performs a dry run using the current rules and settings. – Outputs the total number of sessions and how many would be pruned, without deleting anything. – wp session-shredder prune – Runs a real prune using the current rules and settings. – Deletes matching sessions, updates stats, and logs a summary.

This WooCommerce extension automatically adds a PDF or XML invoice (e-invoicing) to the order confirmation emails sent out to your customers. Includes a basic template (additional templates are available from WP Overnight) as well as the possibility to modify/create your own templates. In addition, you can choose to download or print invoices and packing slips from the WooCommerce order admin. Main features Automatically attach invoice PDF or XML to WooCommerce emails of your choice Download the PDF or XML Invoice / PDF Packing Slip from the order admin page Choose from a range of e‑document formats: UBL 2.1, Peppol BIS 3.0, CII D16B, Factur‑X 1.0, ZUGFeRD 1.0, and ZUGFeRD 2.0. Generate PDF invoices / packing slips in bulk Fully customizable HTML/CSS invoice templates Download invoices from the My Account page Sequential invoice numbers Available in: Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese (see FAQ for adding custom fonts!), Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish & Ukrainian Free extensions The following free extensions are available to add additional features to the plugin: PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce – mPDF: Adds support for RTL layout and Arabic script. PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce – mPDF CJK: Provides support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) fonts for the mPDF extension. PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce – Unicode Language Pack: Adds support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts. PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce – Taxes Summary: Adds a taxes summary table after the order details. Premium extensions In addition to this, we offer several premium extensions: Create/email PDF Proforma Invoices, Credit Notes (for Refunds), email Packing Slips, automatic upload to Dropbox, Google Drive & more with PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce Professional Get the complete feature set, including Professional, Premium Templates, and additional features with the WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips Plus Bundle Add Peppol network delivery for WooCommerce invoices and credit notes right inside your invoicing workflow. eDocuments for WooCommerce: Peppol Automatically send new orders or packing slips to your printer as soon as the customer orders! WooCommerce Automatic Order Printing (PrintNode) Enable EU VAT number collection, automatic validation and reverse-charge logic right in your WooCommerce store. WooCommerce European (EU/UK/Norway/Switzerland) VAT Compliance Fully customizable In addition to a number of default settings (including a custom header/logo) and several layout fields that you can use out of the box, the plugin contains HTML/CSS-based templates that allow for customization & full control over the PDF output. Copy the templates to your theme folder and you don’t have to worry that your customizations will be overwritten when you update the plugin. Insert customer header image/logo Modify shop data / footer / disclaimer etc. on the invoices & packing slips Select paper size (Letter or A4) Translation ready