WooCommerce Create Custom Order Statuses

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How To Implement This Solution?

Simply copy the pre-coded solution to your active theme’s functions.php or preferably the Code Snippets Plugin.

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About This Solution

Creating a custom order status in WooCommerce can be useful if there are extra steps in your business processes. Perhaps you would like to set a custom order status of “Dispatched”, “Exchanged” or “Being Picked”. With this code snippet, you are able to create any custom status you like to meet your business and customer needs.

/**
* Snippet Name:     Create custom WooCommerce order statuses.
* Snippet Author:   ecommercehints.com
*/

add_filter( 'woocommerce_register_shop_order_post_statuses', 'ecommercehints_register_custom_order_status' );

function ecommercehints_register_custom_order_status( $order_statuses ){
   $order_statuses['wc-custom-status'] = array(
   'label'                     => _x( 'Custom Status', 'Order status', 'woocommerce' ),
   'public'                    => false,
   'exclude_from_search'       => false,
   'show_in_admin_all_list'    => true,
   'show_in_admin_status_list' => true,
   'label_count'               => _n_noop( 'Custom Status <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'Custom Status <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'woocommerce' ),
   );
   return $order_statuses;
}

add_filter( 'wc_order_statuses', 'ecommercehints_show_custom_order_status' );

function ecommercehints_show_custom_order_status( $order_statuses ) {
   $order_statuses['wc-custom-status'] = _x( 'Custom Status', 'Order status', 'woocommerce' );
   return $order_statuses;
}

add_filter( 'bulk_actions-edit-shop_order', 'ecommercehints_get_custom_order_status_bulk' );

function ecommercehints_get_custom_order_status_bulk( $bulk_actions ) {
   $bulk_actions['mark_custom-status'] = 'Change status to custom status';
   return $bulk_actions;
}
?>