WooCommerce admins are allowed to “edit” an order only when this is in the “on hold” or “pending payment” status. By “edit” I mean having the chance of modifying or adding products, fees, shipping and recalculating the totals, which are not allowed once the order has been placed (“processing“, “completed“, etc.).
However, there are many reasons why you’d want to have the right to edit a processing, completed, or custom status order – of course as long as you don’t end up changing the total, as customers already paid at that stage.
Think about the following scenarios:
- you customized the items table and added a custom field, and you want to set the custom field value when the order is “processing“
- you need to edit the shipping method name AFTER checkout, and you want to be able to rename it when the order is “completed“
- you need to add a fee and a discount of equal amounts (so that the total stays the same) before completing the order
Either way, let’s enable the little “pencil icon” on a custom order status, so that the admin can customize the order whenever they wish!
This processing order “is no longer editable”. Let’s change that with a simple snippet!
PHP Snippet: Edit Order @ Custom Order Status
Note: instead of “processing“, you can use “completed“, “cancelled“, or any custom order status.
/** * @snippet Allow Order Edit @ Custom Status * @how-to Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE * @author Rodolfo Melogli * @compatible WooCommerce 7 * @donate $9 https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/ */ add_filter( ‘wc_order_is_editable’, ‘bbloomer_custom_order_status_editable’, 9999, 2 ); function bbloomer_custom_order_status_editable( $allow_edit, $order ) { if ( $order->get_status() === ‘processing’ ) { $allow_edit = true; } return $allow_edit; }
Once this is running, here’s what happens to a “processing” order:
… which means all the buttons and clickable edit icons are now back, and you can add, remove, replace and edit order items as you wish.
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Where to add custom code?
You should place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file and CSS at the bottom of its style.css file. Make sure you know what you are doing when editing such files – if you need more guidance, please take a look at my guide “Should I Add Custom Code Via WP Editor, FTP or Code Snippets?” and my video tutorial “Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?”
Does this snippet (still) work?
Please let me know in the comments if everything went as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting.
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Rodolfo Melogli
Business Bloomer Founder
Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.
