Let’s add a new custom quick action button in the WooCoommerce admin order list. By default, WooCommerce will only show these action buttons when an order status is “Pending”, “On-hold” or “Processing”. It’s not very well documented in WooCommerce how to modify this; and the only thing I found was this StackOverflow thread. Here is … Read more
In past posts, we learned how to add a custom order status, how to programmatically change a status, and how to hook into WooCommerce status changes. In this post, we’ll learn how to create a custom WooCommerce email notification for a custom order status. Instead of creating/registering a whole new custom email template, we are … Read more
Here are all the different action hooks you can use for WooCommerce order status changes. 1. woocommerce_order_status_$NAME This is the first action hook that fires when an order status is changed in WooCommerce. To use it, simply replace $NAME with the slug of the status name it is changing to. For the default WooCommerce statuses, … Read more
For this week’s snippet, we will look at how to change the order status in WooCommerce programmatically. It is probably one of the more common tasks you will need to do when building custom functionality into WooCommerce. Luckily for us, it is super easy. WooCommerce provides a builtin function called update_status(). Here is the basic … Read more
In my last post, we looked at how to add a brand new custom order status in WooCommerce. Sometimes though, you may not need to make a new status, but just rename an existing status. Depending on the business, there may be more appropriate names for certain order statuses. For example, you may want to … Read more
The default WooCommerce statuses available are Pending, Processing, On-hold, Completed, Cancelled, Refunded, and Failed. A common request is how to add a custom order status in WooCommerce. For stores selling physical products, it would be super useful to have a custom status such as “shipped”. If you are selling appointments, then maybe you want to … Read more
Sometimes, you may want to get only the private (i.e. non-customer) order notes for an order. You can use the builtin WooCommerce function wc_get_order_notes for this. All you have to do is set the ‘type’ query argument to ‘internal’. It will return an array of order notes. Example snippet In this example, I want to … Read more
I needed to run a couple functions when a WooCommerce order was deleted / trashed using the admin edit order screen. I was looking for a specific WooCommerce hook, but then realized I just needed to use the default WordPress hook wp_trash_post and check for the post type (i.e. shop_order). Silly me. ‘wp_trash_post’ example snippet … Read more
Had a request by a client to sort / rearrange the individual order items that you see on the WordPress admin side (i.e. on the WooCommerce “Edit order” page ). For this particular case, each order item has a date string saved in the item meta. They wanted the items to be sorted from earliest … Read more