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Adding custom order statuses

Adding custom order statuses

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Adding custom order statuses

- [Instructor] One of the most useful areas to customize in WooCommerce is the client's workflow after you get an order. So if your client makes products from scratch, like kites, and it takes them a week to do so, you can create an order status of something like building. It'll fit in between processing and completed. So as a store owner, you could manually move an order from processing, which means payment is complete, on to the building stage when you start building it, and then once it's shipped and sent out, you can change it to the completed stage. Now, there is already a WooCommerce order status manager plugin, which does a lot of these things. You can add unlimited order statues, icons, and workflows, but today, just to show you how all this works in the backend, I'm going to do it from scratch. We're going to start by registering a post status. Since WooCommerce uses custom post statuses for orders, we can use this functionality to add a status to an order. Let's go back to…

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