Title: Variations un-enabling themselves
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Variations un-enabling themselves

 *  Resolved [nuwebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuwebdesign/)
 * (@nuwebdesign)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-un-enabling-themselves/)
 * I’m having a really odd issue. I have a some variations that are added but keep
   disabling themselves. When I check the enabled box and then click update on the
   product, go back to the variation, it is disabled again. Any reason why it would
   keep doing this?
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/)

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 *  [hoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whereskarlo/)
 * (@whereskarlo)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-un-enabling-themselves/#post-4852177)
 * I have the exact same problem. Everytime a product is updated the variations 
   reset. I then have to set them again and update a second time for them to stick.
 *  [hoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whereskarlo/)
 * (@whereskarlo)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-un-enabling-themselves/#post-4852178)
 * Adding a comment to receive updates on this issue. It was there in both 2.1.6
   and 2.1.7. Strangely enough, a friend’s fresh install of 2.1.7. does not have
   this problem.
 * Do you use any caching plugin by any chance?
 *  Thread Starter [nuwebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuwebdesign/)
 * (@nuwebdesign)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-un-enabling-themselves/#post-4852181)
 * I do not. I’ve been going back to re-enable the variable and then update the 
   it never seems to stick.
 *  Thread Starter [nuwebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuwebdesign/)
 * (@nuwebdesign)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-un-enabling-themselves/#post-4852260)
 * To answer my own question, this is not a problem with Woocommerce. Either contact
   your host or if you know how to find your PHP.ini file on your host, and then
   add the following “max_input_vars = 50000”. What is happening and why it is unchecking
   itself is because PHP can only POST and GET up to a 1000 fields by default. Use
   this [plugin](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-max-submit-protect/) to see how
   much your site can POST and GET.
 * Alternatively, you can add the following into your htaccess file
    ` php_value
   max_input_vars 50000  if you can not access your PHP.ini file. Since I have a
   large amount of variables, I was trying to submitted up to 9000 forms which is
   obviously WAAAAYYY over 1000. Hope this helps anyone in the future that stumbles
   upon the same issue when dealing with large amounts of variables.
 * Enjoy!
 *  Thread Starter [nuwebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuwebdesign/)
 * (@nuwebdesign)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-un-enabling-themselves/#post-4852261)
 * Marking this as resolved as well.

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-un-enabling-themselves/#post-4852261)
 * Status: resolved