Month: February 2018

We all (mostly) understand updates are important and I’m sure there were only good intentions by setting it but the
‘Connect your store to WooCommerce.com to receive extensions updates and support.’
Nag notice is ridiculous. A non-dismissable notice should never be allowed. I get you dont want people to just quickly click the dismiss button, so why not put an option at the bottom of the connect page ‘Dismiss this alert. I understand what this means’ even if it only dismissed for say 3 months and then you had to do it again. It would still be annoying but at least easier to deal with.

But no, in someones infinite wisdom they’ve decided you absolutely must connect your store and have no other option. Well here’s the code to add to stop that nag notice

add_filter( 'woocommerce_helper_suppress_admin_notices', '__return_true' );

** It is your own responsibility to keep your site upto date.
** Disabling this notice, may disable other woocommerce notices.

There are of course legitimate reasons why would wouldn’t want to connect your store, managing your updates your own way should always be allowed. So dev’s stop trying to dictate how you want/think things should run, choice is the key.

Yesterday upgrade a store to WooCommerce 3.3.1 from whatever the hell it was on before.

Today I’ve spent the day putting things right 😠 All the issues are around the new Orders UI and it seems like petty small stuff but it’s safe to say I’m hating the new UI because I’ve wasted the day dealing with over 50 complaints.
For those unfamiliar here’s the proposed changes (the end result is a little different) https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/wc-3-3-order-screen-changes-including-a-new-preview-function-ready-for-feedback/#comment-4137

I’ve so far fixed some of the issues, such as rearranging the columns (why the actual fu*k status was moved I’ll never know or understand). The below code is probably not the best way to do it, but it works

// Function to Change the order of the Columns
function woocommerce_myinitials_restore_columns( $columns ) {
    $new_order = array(
       'cb' => '',
       'order_status' => '',
       'csv_export_status' => '', // dont think this ones standard but it's part of a plugin we use.
       'order_number' => '',
       'order_items' => '',
       'billing_address' => '',
       'shipping_address' => '',
       'order_date' => '',
       'order_total' => '',
       'wc_actions' => '',
    );
    foreach($columns as $key => $value) {
       $new_order[$key] = $value;
    }

    return $new_order;
}
add_filter( 'manage_edit-shop_order_columns', 'woocommerce_myinitials_restore_columns',99 );

So that’s one issue solved. The next was being able to click anywhere in the row opens the order (yeah I’m sure that’s nice, but if you rely on tapping a touchscreen i.e. click and drag to scroll then this causes problems). The following code adds the no-link class to the tr and stops this shitty behaviour

function woocommerce_myinitials_restore_columns_add_nolink_class( $classes ) {
    if ( is_admin() ) {
        $current_screen = get_current_screen();
        if ( $current_screen->base == 'edit' && $current_screen->post_type == 'shop_order' ) {
            $classes[] = 'no-link';
        }
    }
    return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'post_class', 'woocommerce_myinitials_restore_columns_add_nolink_class' );

Thanks on this one goes to ‘rodrigoprimo’ for the initial fix and others who picked it up and added a bit to it https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/18708.

I’ve added the following as a stylesheet

.post-type-shop_order .wp-list-table td, .post-type-shop_order .wp-list-table th {
   vertical-align: unset;
}

.post-type-shop_order .wp-list-table td.order_status {
   vertical-align: middle;
   text-align: center;
}

This places the orders back at the top of the row, and stops the previous restoration of items sold link jumping around. but I’d rather the new status text stays in the middle inline with the checkbox, hopefully we’ll get this back to an icon soon.

All of the above I’ve added to our custom plugin, you could either do this or add them to your functions.php

Outstanding issues:
1. Getting back the Email address. There is some hope this may come back officially, but I’ll be fixing it for us tomorrow.
2. The Status being text not icons. I understand this makes more sense to new users but if you have some long statuses like we do, the text doesn’t fit and we’ve got 10 statuses all looking the same. Having coloured icons worked for us and if you weren’t sure hover the mouse. I’ll be looking to get them back to icons tomorrow.
3) Date column, just why! Why would anyone think not putting the actual date and time of the order here is a good idea. Stupid ‘X mins ago’ is no use at all.

The new preview window looks good but I really dont see it getting much use, we need the important data on the front. If it’s not that important just open the order. WooCommerce dev’s decided to screw with it but I dont think there’s an understanding that if your going as far as opening the preview window then I’m pretty sure you were used to just editing the order which is probably still going to be the case.

So summing up today, I’ve had a shit day of people moaning at me because some developers decided to improve something that really didn’t need touching. Doesn’t sound like every developer I’ve ever known 😂. I’m now getting something to eat before I go near everything I’d planned on working on today.