All WooCommerce orders go to either “processing”, “completed”, “on-hold” and other default order statuses based on the payment method and product type.
Sometimes these statuses are not enough. For example, you might need to mark certain orders in a different way for tracking, filtering, exporting purposes. Or you might want to disable default emails by bypassing the default order status changes.
Either way, creating a custom order status is quite easy. And today we’ll see which PHP snippet you need in order to make this work!
WooCommerce: create a custom order status
PHP Snippet: Create a Custom WooCommerce Order Status
/**
* @snippet Custom WooCommerce Order Status
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* @compatible WooCommerce 6
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*/
add_filter( 'woocommerce_register_shop_order_post_statuses', 'tutoraspire_register_custom_order_status' );
function tutoraspire_register_custom_order_status( $order_statuses ) {
// Status must start with "wc-"!
$order_statuses['wc-custom-status'] = array(
'label' => 'Custom Status',
'public' => false,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'show_in_admin_all_list' => true,
'show_in_admin_status_list' => true,
'label_count' => _n_noop( 'Custom Status (%s)', 'Custom Status (%s)', 'woocommerce' ),
);
return $order_statuses;
}
add_filter( 'wc_order_statuses', 'tutoraspire_show_custom_order_status_single_order_dropdown' );
function tutoraspire_show_custom_order_status_single_order_dropdown( $order_statuses ) {
$order_statuses['wc-custom-status'] = 'Custom Status';
return $order_statuses;
}
