🔧 What is HPOS in WooCommerce? Everything You Should Know 🧩 Introduction to HPOS HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage), formerly known as Custom Order Tables, is a new database architecture introduced by WooCommerce to dramatically improve performance, scalability, and reliability when managing orders. Traditionally, WooCommerce stored orders as shop_order post types in the wp_posts table, with associated metadata in wp_postmeta. While compatible with WordPress’s structure, this system has major performance bottlenecks — especially for large or high-volume stores. HPOS introduces dedicated database tables for orders, including: 📅 Timeline and Development Date Milestone Description Sept 2022 Public Beta in WooCommerce 7.1 First optional beta release, developers encouraged to test. Aug 2023 WooCommerce…