The little rectangle is the place for the email address of the person who placed the order. I have 2.4.7 and don’t have your problem, so maybe its theme specific or a plugin conflict. My set of 3 icons under the Actions column are different to yours. Maybe yours are coming from an order-page plugin?
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Thanks Lorro, my theme is Woocommerce’s Storefront so I would have thought it should certainly be compatible.
The email addresses are actually there, I’ve just blurred them out in my screenshot. When I inspect the code for that rectangle button in Chrome it has the following code:
<button type="button" class="toggle-row">
<span class="screen-reader-text">Show more details</span>
</button>
The button does nothing when clicked so I’ll have to investigate a little more. The icons I have under Actions are from the “WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips” but I tried disabling that and it didn’t help.
I’ll go through my plugins and see if a conflict is causing it but I don’t have many others.
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Hmmm, well I deactivated every plugin apart from Woocommerce and changed theme to 2015 (although thinking about it, the theme shouldn’t even affect backend layout should it?) but it still happens.
Strange that it’s not affecting your installation. I also have a localhost WP install and the same thing happens on there even though it’s a completely independent setup/database etc.
My items are Variable Products and digital downloads so maybe it’s unique to something like that. It’s not a massive problem as I can just edit any orders via Bulk Actions dropdown but maybe someone else is having the same issue to confirm it’s not just me!
Also using Storefront, I have the same button markup. On mine though, its style is set to display:none so I don’t see it. Also, its style is set to display:absolute, so when I disable display:none, it appears in the top right corner. I can get it to display in the position shown in your screen shot by adding display:relative to the table cell. So it looks like something is altering your styles. Are your admin stylesheets cached?
Something like:
.wp-list-table .toggle-row {display:none}
in your custom css (which loads last) should hide it.
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Thanks, that’s interesting to know. I’m not so much bothered about hiding the redundant button but more interested in getting back the quick link functionality if I can (the View/Delete order links etc.) Not essential just occasionally used and I can always do it another way.
I’ve tried flushing the cache but didn’t help. Not to worry, maybe it’s a bug that will get ironed out if anyone else sees it too.
Thanks for your help though 🙂
