Deleting products without any redirects can result in a negative impact on your Search Engine Optimization or SEO. To prevent product deletion a notice is displayed on clicking trash to inform that they should be redirecting.
Free Version:
Notice in product manager to not delete products
Option in product to redirect to parent category or a custom url
Deleting products is bad for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and setting redirects through apache can lead to a huge htaccess.
Why are fields on products not loading?
If you have ACF installed already, you may need to sync the fields, as they are stored via json to reduce db calls. We built this around ACF to reduce development times and to prevent adding unnecessary code if you already have it installed.
Why does this use ACF?
Mainly to reduce the amount of time in development, but also to save resources. If you already have Advanced Custom Fields installed, then you don’t have to worry about additional code executing on product admin pages.
Bugfix: Unexpected output on activation due to admin notices displaying after activation
Enhancement: Made use of namespacing to prevent class clashes
Optimized: Various code chunks