{"id":19036018,"date":"2026-10-04T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/allow-backorder-not-working-as-designed\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T06:34:08","slug":"allow-backorder-not-working-as-designed","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/allow-backorder-not-working-as-designed\/","title":{"rendered":"allow backorder not working as designed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish to use the setting &#8220;allow backorders&#8221; &#8211; the one that DOESN&#8217;T notify customers but whether I select that or &#8220;allow, but notify customer&#8221; &#8211; it is the same &#8211; on the front end it says &#8220;available on backorder&#8221; which gives a false impression that customers will have to wait days for it. It used to work properly. Don&#8217;t know when it changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for any advice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19036018","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19036018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19036018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19036018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}