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enricogan:

To be fair, my shop is pretty small… but even if it had been a few hundred items, it would have been relatively quick, and if you compare the migration time to the workaround time, you’d see that it isn’t that bad. Also, the Woo feature set is pretty cool, so you’re almost for sure going to be ahead of the game in terms of functionality.

I was able to run both plugins at the same time and literally cut and paste the products across.

I also had the advantage that the store structure wasn’t too bad, so getting the site to respond properly was straightforward.

One challenge that I did have was that WPEC leaves its taxonomies lying around, so you have to be clear about choosing the right one if you’re duplicating them.

It appears that the issue is the new block editor in 5.x. There is an official classic editor plugin you can download from WP. Install it, activate it, and it will give you the classic editor, including access to create and edit product pages, just as before.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

I don’t know if WPEcommerce is going to fix this or not… but given that WP is offering an official plugin that returns the functionality, I am kinda OK with it being as it is… but there are increasingly good reasons to switch to something else.