Customizing order statuses

WooCommerce uses order statuses to track the state of orders. WooCommerce includes several different order statuses including the following:

• Completed
• Processing
• Pending payment
• On hold
• Refunded
• Canceled
• Failed

But some shops may need more order statuses. You might need a "Building" status to indicate that you started building the order. You can easily add a custom order status yourself with some custom code. We're going to start with our WooCommerce Example plugin and then we're going to register a post status and add it to WooCommerce.

Using the WooCommerce Example plugin

We can start by using the example plugin we created earlier in this chapter.

We'll copy the example...