This is a cool customization that can come useful for WooCommerce store admins, especially when they do manual order status changes via the Orders admin page.
As you know, each order status change triggers an order email (“processing”, “completed”, “on-hold”, etc.), and sometimes the store manager doesn’t want to resend them after each edit.
In this quick tutorial, we will see how to add a checkbox to the single order edit page, so that emails are disabled as long as the checkbox is kept checked. Enjoy!
PHP Snippet: Checkbox to Disable Order Emails @ WooCommerce Single Order Edit Page
/**
* @snippet Disable Emails for Single Order @ WooCommerce Admin
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* @author Rodolfo Melogli
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add_action( 'woocommerce_admin_order_data_after_order_details', 'bbloomer_disable_order_emails', 9999 );
function bbloomer_disable_order_emails( $order ) {
woocommerce_wp_checkbox( array(
'id' => '_disable_order_emails',
'label' => '<b>Disable Order Emails</b>',
'description' => 'Check this if you wish to disable emails when order status changes',
'wrapper_class' => 'form-field-wide',
'style' => 'width:auto',
));
}
add_action( 'save_post_shop_order', 'bbloomer_save_disable_order_emails' );
function bbloomer_save_disable_order_emails( $order_id ) {
global $pagenow, $typenow;
if ( 'post.php' !== $pagenow || 'shop_order' !== $typenow ) return;
if ( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) return;
if ( isset( $_POST['_disable_order_emails'] ) ) {
update_post_meta( $order_id, '_disable_order_emails', $_POST['_disable_order_emails'] );
} else delete_post_meta( $order_id, '_disable_order_emails' );
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_recipient_customer_on_hold_order', 'bbloomer_disable_customer_emails_if_disabled', 9999, 2 );
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_recipient_customer_processing_order', 'bbloomer_disable_customer_emails_if_disabled', 9999, 2 );
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_recipient_customer_completed_order', 'bbloomer_disable_customer_emails_if_disabled', 9999, 2 );
// TARGET OTHER EMAILS WITH https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-add-extra-content-order-email/
function bbloomer_disable_customer_emails_if_disabled( $recipient, $order ) {
$page = $_GET['page'] = isset( $_GET['page'] ) ? $_GET['page'] : '';
if ( 'wc-settings' === $page ) {
return $recipient;
}
if ( get_post_meta( $order->get_id(), '_disable_order_emails', true ) ) $recipient = '';
return $recipient;
}
This is a great snippet! Would there be a clean way to reset it after every order save? Because if you forget about it and you do a bulk update via the backend order list the email will also be ignored and you would not know about it.
Or you could add a column to the order list to know if it’s enabled / disabled. Similar example: https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-add-column-to-orders-table-wp-dashboard/