Hover notes

Hello @dreadlocksnation,

Thank you reaching out to WooCommerce Support.

To assist you effectively, could you please specify the exact area in the WooCommerce admin where the hover feature is used to show the last order note? Is it on the ‘Orders‘ page within the WooCommerce dashboard that you’re experiencing this change?

The functionality of hovering over order status on the orders page is working fine on my end as shown here on the latest version of the WooCommerce.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Greetings,

Many thanks for your reply. Yes this is exactly this one, the hover on order page as your screenshot, but for me the hover doesn’t works.

Have a blessed day

Hello @dreadlocksnation,

Could you please try switching to a default theme such as Storefront or Twenty Twenty-Four and see if it works? This will help us determine if the problem is related to your theme.

Thanks!

Can I do it without any risk? Are you really sure? ??

Thanks you for your help ??

Hey, @dreadlocksnation!

You can switch back to your original theme after testing.

But if you want to be extra careful:

— Be sure you have a good backup in place of your full site and database. You can ask your host for backup functionality or you can consider using a service like Jetpack. If something goes wrong, you will be able to restore it.

— You can also consider a staging functionality in case you would not like to touch your production site (you can ask your host if they offer this service), or you can use WP Staging for quickly spinning up a new test site.

Please let us know how it goes.

Have a wonderful day!

Not sure if this is the same problem, but we updated Woocommerce from 8.6 to 9.2, and the problem with that hover occurred.

It’s not an issue that it doesn’t appear, but, previously, it showed the last one of the order notes.

However, now it just shows a generic text of what the status mean (which is info of little value, because people who work with the orders every day, have already learned the status meanings) – as in your screenshot.

The last note (which includes notes manually added by our shop administrators or vai API by related systems) is a much more useful information for us. We would like to get it back either in that tooltip, or as a separate column altogether.

Greetings, yes actually I have the same thing, a generic text of what the status mean.

If you want, you can add this code in your fonctions.php to get a new column “Notes” with the latest note.

Have a blessed day.

// Ajouter une colonne personnalisée pour les notes
add_filter('manage_edit-shop_order_columns', 'custom_shop_order_notes_column', 20);
function custom_shop_order_notes_column($columns) {
    $columns['order_notes'] = __('Notes', 'woocommerce');
    return $columns;
}

// Remplir la colonne avec la note la plus récente
add_action('manage_shop_order_posts_custom_column', 'custom_shop_order_notes_column_content');
function custom_shop_order_notes_column_content($column) {
    global $post;

    if ('order_notes' === $column) {
        $order = wc_get_order($post->ID);
        
        if (!$order) {
            echo __('Invalid order', 'woocommerce');
            return;
        }

        $notes = wc_get_order_notes(array('order_id' => $order->get_id(), 'limit' => 1, 'order' => 'DESC'));

        if (!empty($notes)) {
            $note = reset($notes);
            echo esc_html($note->content);
        } else {
            echo __('No notes', 'woocommerce');
        }
    }
}

Hey, everyone!

@dreadlocksnation, thank you for sharing the code to add the notes back and contributing to the WooCommerce Community. This might help other users ??

Just to provide more information on this, this was removed as it could generate a huge amount of queries and cause issues on certain websites.
If you are interested you can check more information about it here.

This comment also shares a code snippet to add it back and has other information on how to add the snippet, in case anyone needs it ??

I’ll close this thread now, okay?

Please let us know if there’s anything else we can do to help or if you have any questions.

Have a wonderful day!

Greetings,

Thank you for your reply, and for this explanation. I like to get a special column for it, it helps me to save time during my workflow.

I also added the thumbnail of the item, with the quantity ordered and the SKU with the size in the state column. https://ibb.co/5BXzQwb

Blessings.

Yes you can close this thread now ??

@carolm29 , thank you for the info and the references!

Hello @dreadlocksnation, @jaanise,

You’re welcome! I’m glad we could help.

Should you have further inquiries, kindly create a new topic here.

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Thanks!