09/10/2026
After updating to WooCommerce 11.2, more than 2,000 variations on an online store lost their image overnight. It wasn't a display bug or a data-entry mistake. It was a database migration that deletes data. Here's the cause, how to diagnose it, and how to fix it.
TL;DR: if you have variable products where a variation's image is the same as the product's featured image, WooCommerce 11.2 removed it from the variation. The fix is a single SQL query, shown below.
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After updating to WooCommerce 11.2, more than 2,000 variations on an online store lost their image overnight. It wasn't a display bug or a data-entry mistake. It was a database migration that deletes data. Here's the cause, how to diagnose it, and how to fix it.