Translation

Hi! This is the translation of ‘Backordered’ – this is part of the WooCommerce text domain… The tricky thing is, that once this is added to the order, changing the translations will not affect this string anymore, because it is stored in the order item meta. The only way to change this is to edit the order item meta directly in the backend, but paid orders cannot be edited.

So three strategies to change this:
1) Editing paid orders
You need to apply the following filter:

add_filter( 'wc_order_is_editable', '__return_true', 10, 2 );

2a) Change the string in the WooCommerce text domain
In loco translate, open the strings for WooCommerce rather than PDF Invoices & Packing Slips

2b) Use a filter to change the string (instead of loco translate)
Instead of using Loco translate, you can also replace the string with a filter. This allows for more dynamic behavior, although this example just replaces it the same for all products:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_backordered_item_meta_name', 'woocommerce_backordered_item_meta_name', 10, 2 );
function woocommerce_backordered_item_meta_name( $name, $product ) {
	return 'Livraison 5 à 8 jours';
}

If you haven’t worked with code snippets (actions/filters) or functions.php before, read this guide: How to use filters

Hope that helps!

Hi! 2b) will not have any effect on existing orders, for that you will need to do 1).

Yes you can do this with a small modification:

add_action( 'wpo_wcpdf_before_html', 'wpo_wcpdf_item_meta_remove_backordered', 10, 2 );
function wpo_wcpdf_item_meta_remove_backordered( $document_type, $document = null ) {
    if ($document_type == 'invoice') {
        add_filter( 'woocommerce_order_item_get_formatted_meta_data', 'woocommerce_order_item_meta_remove_backordered', 10, 2 );
    }
}
function woocommerce_order_item_meta_remove_backordered( $formatted_meta, $item ) {
    foreach ( $formatted_meta as $meta_id => $meta ) {
        if ($meta->display_key == apply_filters( 'woocommerce_backordered_item_meta_name', __( 'Backordered', 'woocommerce' ), $item ) ) {
            unset($formatted_meta[$meta_id]);
        }
    }
    return $formatted_meta;
}

that’s correct, this filter to remove the meta will not work properly if you keep changing the strings 🙂

This may work:

add_action( 'wpo_wcpdf_before_html', 'wpo_wcpdf_item_meta_remove_backordered', 10, 2 );
function wpo_wcpdf_item_meta_remove_backordered( $document_type, $document = null ) {
    if ($document_type == 'invoice') {
        add_filter( 'woocommerce_order_item_get_formatted_meta_data', 'woocommerce_order_item_meta_remove_backordered', 10, 2 );
    }
}
function woocommerce_order_item_meta_remove_backordered( $formatted_meta, $item ) {
    foreach ( $formatted_meta as $meta_id => $meta ) {
        if ($meta->display_key == apply_filters( 'woocommerce_backordered_item_meta_name', __( 'Backordered', 'woocommerce' ), $item ) ||  $meta->display_key == __( 'Backordered', 'woocommerce' ) || stripos($meta->display_key, 'Livraison ') !== false ) {
            unset($formatted_meta[$meta_id]);
        }
    }
    return $formatted_meta;
}

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Ewout. Reason: added extra option