If you are one of the administrators of the online stores that use WooCommerce for managing your orders, you might be looking for ways to add specific information to each order. For instance, you might want to add a unique quantity per person or some specific text related to each order that can later be used in reports or marketing. This can be accomplished by utilizing hooks in WooCommerce.
Hooks in WooCommerce allow you to automatically and intelligently manage specific processes or functionalities. One of these hooks that is quite useful is woocommerce_new_order. You can use this hook to implement specific changes whenever a new order is created.
In this article, we will discuss how to add meta information related to new orders using this hook. First, it is necessary to create a function that connects this hook to WooCommerce. This way, you would be able to add additional information like delivery type and estimated dispatch date to the order information.
Example Code for Adding Meta Information
Here is an example code that demonstrates how to add meta information to orders:
add_action('woocommerce_new_order', 'add_custom_meta_to_order', 10, 1);
function add_custom_meta_to_order($order_id) {
if (!$order_id) return;
// Here you can add your new meta information
$order = wc_get_order($order_id);
$order->update_meta_data('custom_meta_key', 'custom_meta_value');
$order->save();
}
Line by Line Code Explanation
add_action('woocommerce_new_order', 'add_custom_meta_to_order', 10, 1);This line is used to connect the custom function to the hook
woocommerce_new_order. This hook will trigger whenever a new order is created in WooCommerce.function add_custom_meta_to_order($order_id) {
This line defines a function named
add_custom_meta_to_order which receives the order_id as an argument.if (!$order_id) return;
This condition checks if the order ID is valid; if it’s not, the function ends here.
$order = wc_get_order($order_id);
Using this line, you retrieve the order related to the given order ID.
$order->update_meta_data('custom_meta_key', 'custom_meta_value');
This line adds new meta information to the order. In this example, 'custom_meta_key' is the key and 'custom_meta_value' is the value of the meta data.
$order->save();
Finally, with this line, the changes made to the order will be saved.