AndreasN.OTGS

Sorry, took bit longer..
Please add this also to your “functions.php” of your active theme:

function my_awesome_shipping_notification( $order_id, $checkout=null ) {
   global $woocommerce;

   $order = new WC_Order( $order_id );

   //error_log( $order->status );

   if($order->status === 'shipping-progress' ) {

      // Create a mailer
      $mailer 		= $woocommerce->mailer();

      $message_body = __( 'Your order is being shipped..', 'text_domain'  );

      $message 		= $mailer->wrap_message(
        // Message head and message body.
        sprintf( __( 'Order %s ready for shipping', 'text_domain'  ), $order->get_order_number() ), $message_body );

      // Client email, email subject and message.
		$result = $mailer->send( $order->billing_email, sprintf( __( 'Order %s received', 'text_domain'  ), $order->get_order_number() ), $message );

	 //error_log( $result );
	}

}
add_action( 'woocommerce_order_status_changed', 'my_awesome_shipping_notification');

If that is the most recommended code for the most recent Woocommerce version I’m not sure. But when I tried it out I received an email when order status was set on “Shipping”, so it worked for me.*

Btw since checking if mailer is really working is a bit tricky:
Add this to wp-config.php

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

The output of error_log( $variable ) will then appear in your-install.com/wp-content/debug.log If you test on localhost like Xampp or WAMP use plugin WP-Mail-SMTP and connect to e.g. to a Google mail account.

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*http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27112461/woocommerce-send-custom-email-on-custom-order-status-change -> user “quelicm”

Since I’m not familiar with your setup and installations – allow my to ask/mention this:

1) Remote-ness of your external MySQL databases
Are the remote MySQL DBs on the same *DB server* as your WordPress installation?

2) If not – make sure to grant these remote MySQL DBs “remote access” privileges.
This can be done often via the hosting panel. Example: http://www.liquidweb.com/kb/enable-remote-mysql-connections-in-cpanel/

3) WP operates with the $wpdb object using the data provided in the wp-config.php of the WP installation
In order to get data from another WP database but using all WP functionality you need to register another $wpdb object. Like this -> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/1604/using-wpdb-to-connect-to-a-separate-database

Hope this helps a little bit 🙂

Had a closer look at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/woocommerce-product-image-to-external-link-in-new-window – true, actually there a Woocommerce core file is edited, this is not what we wanna do. But it mentions the right filter which has to be manipulated: woocommerce_single_product_image_html

Could you try this:
1) Add below code into the “functions.php” file of your active theme

define( 'AFFILIATE_LINK_1', 'http://v2.wp-api.org/' );

function affiliate_custom_links($link, $post_id) {
    $pattern 		= '/(?<=href=")([^"]*)/';
    $replacement 	= AFFILIATE_LINK_1;
    return preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $link);
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_single_product_image_html', 'affiliate_custom_links', 10, 2 );

2) Go to the *single* view of a product
3) Click on product picture
4) Are you redirected to http://v2.wp-api.org/ page?

Works fine for me, hope for you too 🙂

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see also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21127301/overriding-template-with-hooks

Hi Curly86
Think the plugin/code mentioned here might help: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/woocommerce-product-image-to-external-link-in-new-window

Yes, I will try to 🙂
The code you mention in the opening post, where exactly in which file is it located?

Based on my own moving experiences 🙂 could you check via phpMyAdmin if there are still “old” http://www.national-stage.co.uk urls in your database tables?

Think in this case one of the plugins mentioned here could help -> https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-post-frontend-plugins/

I’m quite sure that this “more-link” must come from one of your theme options.
To get rid of the link immediately add a.more-link {visibility: hidden;} to the very end of your themes style.css
Does it make a difference?