{"id":992,"date":"2020-08-20T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:19","slug":"edit-processing-orders-in-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/edit-processing-orders-in-woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Edit &#8220;Processing&#8221; Orders in WooCommerce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have a customer where all of their items are variable products. As you can imagine, there ends up being requests to change sizes, colors, or other variations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once they&#8217;ve paid for the order, the status of the order gets set to &#8220;Processing&#8221; and WooCommerce won&#8217;t let you edit that order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Nicola Mustone&#8217;s article <a href=\"https:\/\/nicolamustone.blog\/2015\/05\/14\/how-to-edit-processing-orders\/\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How make \u201cProcessing\u201d orders editable<\/a>, it&#8217;s as simple as adding this code to your theme&#8217;s functions.php:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>add_filter( 'wc_order_is_editable', 'wc_make_processing_orders_editable', 10, 2 );\nfunction wc_make_processing_orders_editable( $is_editable, $order ) {\n    if ( $order->get_status() == 'processing' ) {\n        $is_editable = true;\n    }\n\n    return $is_editable;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a customer where all of their items are variable products. As you can imagine, there ends up being requests to change sizes, colors, or other variations. Once they&#8217;ve paid for the order, the status of the order gets set to &#8220;Processing&#8221; and WooCommerce won&#8217;t let you edit that order. Thanks to Nicola Mustone&#8217;s &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Edit &#8220;Processing&#8221; Orders in WooCommerce\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/edit-processing-orders-in-woocommerce\/#more-992\" aria-label=\"Read more about Edit &#8220;Processing&#8221; Orders in WooCommerce\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}