Hooks for order creation exclusively in Woocommerce 3

Question

I need to detect when a new WooCommerce order is successfully created and set to ‘processing’—this is to add some extra functionality etc. This is fine to do on the frontend as it’s pretty easy to hook in when an order is created via either of the WooCommerce woocommerce_thankyou or woocommerce_order_status_processing hooks.

The problem I have is that I also want this to work when creating a new order manually via the backend of the website. I am using some custom fields when adding an order via manually which is used to manipulate the order when created. Unfortunately, although the woocommerce_order_status_processing does work for admin orders it seems to trigger before the order meta is saved—therefore when I try to retrieve any meta data it is empty.

To get round this, I have tried the suggestions on WooCommerce hook for order creation from admin or on this GitHub thread which is to use the WordPress hooks wp_insert_post or save_post_shop_order (save_post_{$post->post_type}). This works to solve my order meta problem as it seems to trigger after the order meta is saved.

However — it triggers everytime there is an update or a new post so I need to find a way of detecting whether it’s a new post or not. There is an $update parameter on these hooks which is meant to show ‘Whether this is an existing post being updated or not’ but for some reason it always seems to be set to true even when it is a new post/order.

To summarise:

I need a WordPress/WooCommerce hook that is triggered after order/post meta is created via the backend and some way of only running this when an order is newly created and not updated.

The only other way potentially of doing this that I can think of is as per this suggestion of checking post date vs. modified date but I just thought there must be a better way of doing this!

Here’s my current code just in case

function my_order_created ( $post_id, $post, $update ) {

    // Don’t run if $post_id doesn’t exist OR post type is not order OR update is true
    if ( ! $post_id || get_post_type( $post_id ) != 'shop_order' || $update == 1 ) {
        return;
    }

    $order = wc_get_order( $post_id );

    if ( $order && $order->has_status( 'processing' ) ){

        // Do something

    }    

}

add_action( 'wp_insert_post', 'my_order_created', 10, 3 );

I have solved this before by checking for 'auto_draft' => 1 in the $_POST array. Seem like there would be a more elegant solution, but this did work in my case. I'm not posting as an answer in hopes someone with the better solution will do so. — user3080408
@user3080408 — To be fair, I just tried it and it works the way I intended so thank you! We’ll see if anyone else adds an answer as I would have thought WordPress would have a more elegant way to do this but good job! — Stuart

Hamid Mohayeji Hamid Mohayeji · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-04T22:08:15

You can use woocommerce_new_order hook:

add_action('woocommerce_new_order', function ($order_id) {
     // your code
}, 10, 1);

Hooks for order creation exclusively in Woocommerce 3

To summarise:

Here’s my current code just in case

2 Answers