Scheduled & Automatic Order Status Controller for WooCommerce

Changelog

3.8.0 – 07/07/2025

• Dev – Security – Escape output.
• Dev – Security – Sanitize input.
• Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Library updated.
• Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Moved to the init hook.
• Dev – WPFactory Recommendations – Moved to the init hook.
• Dev – WPFactory Key Manager – Library updated.
• Dev – WPFactory Key Manager – Moved to the init hook.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Dev – Coding standards improved.
• WC tested up to: 9.9.
• Tested up to: 6.8.

3.7.2 – 12/03/2025

• Fix – Fixed an Open Redirection vulnerability in the admin.
• WC tested up to: 9.7.

3.7.1 – 20/12/2024

• Dev – Recommendations – Library updated.
• Dev – Key Manager – Library updated.
• Dev – Coding standards improved.
• WC tested up to: 9.5.
• Tested up to: 6.7.
• Plugin name updated.

3.7.0 – 21/10/2024

• Dev – Plugin settings moved to the “WPFactory” menu.
• Dev – “Recommendations” added.
• Dev – Key Manager – Library updated.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

3.6.0 – 04/10/2024

• Dev – “Key Manager” added.
• WC tested up to: 9.3.

3.5.5 – 30/08/2024

• Fix – Possible “Unsupported operand types” PHP error fixed.
• WC tested up to: 9.2.

3.5.4 – 30/07/2024

• Fix – Admin Options – Settings Tools – “Reset section settings” tool fixed (it was resetting settings for all rules).
• Dev – Admin Options – Settings Tools – “Copy settings” tool added.
• Dev – Rule – Conditions – Products/categories/tags/stock status – Action – “Exclude all” option added.
• Tested up to: 6.6.
• WC tested up to: 9.1.

3.5.3 – 13/06/2024

• Dev – Conditions – Order meta – “Meta compare” option added (defaults to “Equals”).
• WC tested up to: 8.9.
• WooCommerce added to the “Requires Plugins” (plugin header).

3.5.2 – 30/04/2024

• Dev – Rule – Conditions – Order Users – Paying customer – Possible PHP warning fixed.
• Tested up to: 6.5.
• WC tested up to: 8.8.

3.5.1 – 06/03/2024

• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• WC tested up to: 8.6.

3.5.0 – 30/01/2024

• Dev – Rule – “Skip dates” option added.
• Dev – PHP 8.2 compatibility – “Creation of dynamic property is deprecated” notice fixed.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Tested up to: 6.4.
• WC tested up to: 8.5.

3.4.2 – 23/09/2023

• WordPress plugin logo, banner updated.

3.4.1 – 20/09/2023

• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_order_status_rules_wc_get_orders filter added.
• WC tested up to: 8.1.

3.4.0 – 04/09/2023

• Fix – Declaring HPOS compatibility for the free plugin version, even if the Pro version is activated.
• Dev – Advanced – Orders Query – “Max orders” option added (defaults to -1).
• Tested up to: 6.3.
• WC tested up to: 8.0.

3.3.0 – 16/07/2023

• Dev – Advanced – Process rules on – “Subscription status changed” and “Admin “Edit subscription” page” options added.
• Dev – Advanced – “Statuses” option added. Possible values: “WooCommerce Order Statuses” and “WooCommerce Subscription Statuses”. Defaults to “WooCommerce Order Statuses”.
• Dev – Advanced – “Save status change on” option added. Possible values: “Order status changed” and “Subscription status changed”. Defaults to “Order status changed”.
• Dev – Advanced – “Meta box” option added. Possible values: “Orders” and “Subscriptions”. Defaults to “Orders”.
• Dev – Advanced – Orders Query – “Order types” option added. Possible values: “Orders” and “Subscriptions”. Defaults to “Orders”.
• Dev – Advanced – Admin settings – “Rules processing hooks” renamed to “Process rules on”.
• Dev – Admin settings sections rearranged – “Tools”, “My Account”, “Extra” sections added. “Advanced > Orders Query Options” subsection added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_order_status_rules_wc_get_orders_args filter added.

3.2.0 – 10/07/2023

• Dev – “High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)” compatibility.

3.1.0 – 04/07/2023

• Dev – Advanced – “Default order status” option added.
• Dev – Advanced – “Process Payment Order Status” options added (“Direct bank transfer”, “Check payments”, “Cash on delivery (COD)”).

3.0.3 – 26/06/2023

• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_order_status_rules_hooks_priority filter added.

3.0.2 – 18/06/2023

• WC tested up to: 7.8.

3.0.1 – 08/05/2023

• Tested up to: 6.2.
• WC tested up to: 7.6.

3.0.0 – 10/02/2023

• Fix – Admin settings – General – Reset Settings – Now displaying the correct “Total rules” on settings reset.
• Dev – Admin – DISABLE_WP_CRON notice removed. Instead, a similar message added to the “Advanced > Periodical Processing Options” section description.
• Dev – Advanced – Rules processing hooks – “Checkout order processed” option added.
• Dev – Advanced – Rules processing hooks – ‘”Thank you” (i.e., “Order received”) page’ option added.
• Dev – Advanced – Rules processing hooks – ‘Admin “Edit order” page’ option added.
• Dev – Order status change history – get_order_status_change_history() – Code refactoring.

2.9.3 – 23/01/2023

• Fix – Advanced – Rules processing hooks – Now properly handling the process_rules_for_order() callback on order status update (woocommerce_order_status_changed action).
• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_order_status_rules_check_dates_order_date filter added.
• Tested up to: 6.1.
• WC tested up to: 7.3.

2.9.2 – 17/11/2022

• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_order_status_rules_before_rule_applied and alg_wc_order_status_rules_after_rule_applied actions added.
• WC tested up to: 7.1.

2.9.1 – 20/10/2022

• Dev – Admin settings updated.
• Readme.txt updated.
• WC tested up to: 7.0.

2.9.0 – 11/08/2022

• Dev – Rule – Conditions – Products/categories/tags/stock status – “Require all” option is now a dropdown with an additional “Exclude” value.
• Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Billing emails” option added.
• Dev – Rule – Conditions – Minimum/Maximum amount – “Minimum/Maximum order amount type” options added. Defaults to “Order subtotal”. Another possible value is “Order total”.
• Dev – Admin settings updated; subsections added; etc.
• Dev – Minor code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 6.8.

2.8.2 – 27/07/2022

• Dev – Process rules – Extra safe-checks added for the orders.
• Dev – Deploy script added.
• Tested up to: 6.0.
• WC tested up to: 6.7.

2.8.1 – 21/04/2022

• Fix – Rule – Conditions – Coupons – “Any coupon” option was ignored (plugin was processing the “Specific coupon(s)” option instead). This is fixed now.
• Dev – Rule – Conditions – Coupons – “No coupons” option added.

2.8.0 – 20/04/2022

• Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Coupons” options added.
• Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Paying customer” options added.
• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

2.7.2 – 15/04/2022

• Fix – Admin settings – Users – “Guest” user was removed by mistake in v2.6.1. This is fixed now.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

2.7.1 – 14/04/2022

• Fix – Advanced – Disabled conditions – “Billing countries” and “Shipping countries” options could not be disabled. This is fixed now.

2.7.0 – 14/04/2022

• Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Product stock status” options added.
• Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Billing countries” and “Shipping countries” options added.
• Dev – Rule – Conditions – “All products in the order must match the selection (vs at least one product)” options added to “Products”, “Product categories” and “Product tags” conditions. Defaults to no.

2.6.1 – 13/04/2022

• Dev – Admin settings – Users – Using AJAX now.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 6.4.

2.6.0 – 08/04/2022

• Dev – Advanced – “Disabled conditions” option added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 6.3.

2.5.1 – 26/01/2022

• Dev – Advanced – “Orders sorting” options added.
• Tested up to: 5.9.
• WC tested up to: 6.1.

2.5.0 – 17/01/2022

• Dev – Conditions – Products – Admin settings are using AJAX now.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 6.0.

2.4.1 – 14/12/2021

• Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Date created before” and “Date created after” options added.

2.4.0 – 09/12/2021

• Dev – Rule – Conditions – Order meta – “Multiple meta values” option added (i.e., multiple values are now allowed in the “Meta value” option, as a comma-separated list).
• Dev – Rule – Skip days – Algorithm improved.
• Dev – Order Status History – “No order status rules are scheduled to be applied…” message added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 5.9.

2.3.0 – 27/10/2021

• Dev – Advanced – Periodical Processing – “Action Scheduler” options added.
• Dev – Advanced – “Rules processing hooks” option added (defaults to Order status changed). Can be filtered with the alg_wc_order_status_rules_hooks filter.
• Dev – Advanced – Admin settings rearranged: “Periodical Processing Options”, “Order Status History Options” subsections added. Settings descriptions updated.

2.2.0 – 22/10/2021

• Fix – Admin settings – The issue when “Total rules” option has just been changed, but number of rule settings tabs doesn’t reflect it, is fixed now.
• Dev – Triggering order status rules processing on any order status change now (i.e., rules with zero time triggers will be processed immediately now).

2.1.0 – 21/10/2021

• Dev – Rule – “Shipping methods” option added.
• Dev – Rule – “Minimum order quantity” and “Maximum order quantity” options added.
• Dev – Advanced – “On non-matching order status” option added.
• Dev – Safe-checks added when retrieving order’s payment gateway.
• Dev – Admin “Rule” settings restyled (“Conditions” subsection added).
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 5.8.

2.0.0 – 06/09/2021

• Dev – Admin settings rearranged. Now each order status rule has its own settings section. Tools moved from the “Advanced” section to the “General” section.
• Dev – Rule – “Order meta” options added.
• Dev – Optional alg_wc_order_status_rules_process_rules_redirect URL param added.
• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_order_status_rules_do_apply_rule filter added.
• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_order_status_after_save_settings filter renamed to alg_wc_order_status_rules_after_save_settings.

1.9.0 – 25/08/2021

• Dev – Rule – “User roles” option added.
• Dev – Rule – “Users” option added.
• Dev – Rule – Minimum/Maximum order amount – Decimal values are allowed in settings now (step set to 0.000001).
• WC tested up to: 5.6.

1.8.1 – 11/08/2021

• Dev – Rule – “Minimum order amount” and “Maximum order amount” options added.
• Dev – Rule – Admin settings – “Select all” and “Deselect all” buttons added to all “multiselect” options.

1.8.0 – 02/08/2021

• Dev – Rule – Time trigger – It’s possible to set the value to zero now.
• Dev – Advanced & Tools – “My Account > Orders” options added.
• Dev – Advanced & Tools – On empty order status change history – Defaults to “Use order date modified” now.
• Dev – Save status change – Hook priority set to 10 now (was PHP_INT_MAX).
• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

1.7.0 – 29/07/2021

• Fix – PHP error fixed. Was occurring when creating a new order by admin with “On empty order status change history” option set to “Use order date …”.
• Dev – Advanced – Compatibility Options – “Doctreat” option added.
• Dev – Debug – Now adding to the log if rules was processed manually (i.e., via “Tools > Run all rules now”).
• Dev – Plugin is initialized on plugins_loaded action now.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Tested up to: 5.8.
• WC tested up to: 5.5.

1.6.1 – 13/05/2021

• Fix – “PHP Parse error” fixed.

1.6.0 – 11/05/2021

• Dev – Rule – “Products” option added.
• Dev – Rule – “Product categories” option added.
• Dev – Rule – “Product tags” option added.
• Dev – Order Status History – Descriptions updated in the meta box, e.g., rule title added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

1.5.0 – 20/04/2021

• Dev – Rule – “Payment gateways” option added.
• Dev – Admin settings restyled: new “Advanced & Tools” section added.
• Dev – Minor code refactoring.
• Tested up to: 5.7.
• WC tested up to: 5.2.

1.4.0 – 26/02/2021

• Dev – Advanced – Use WP cron – “WP cron interval” option added (defaults to “Once Hourly”).
• Dev – Advanced – “On empty order status change history” option added.
• Dev – Rule – Time trigger – “Unit” option added (defaults to “hour(s)”).
• Dev – Rule – Time trigger – Defaults to 1 now.
• Dev – Advanced – “Debug” option added.
• Dev – Localization – load_plugin_textdomain() moved to the init hook.
• Dev – Admin descriptions updated.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Tested up to: 5.6.
• WC tested up to: 5.0.

1.3.1 – 17/09/2020

• Dev – Allow rules processing via URL – Hook priority increased.

1.3.0 – 15/09/2020

• Dev – Advanced – “Use WP cron” option added (defaults to yes).
• Dev – Advanced – “Allow rules processing via URL” option added (defaults to no). This is an alternative to WP crons (i.e., allows using “real” (i.e., server) cron jobs instead).
• WC tested up to: 4.5.
• Tested up to: 5.5.

1.2.0 – 27/03/2020

• Fix – “Reset settings” admin notice fixed.
• Dev – Tools – “Run all rules now” tool added.
• Dev – “Next cron event is scheduled on …” info added to admin settings.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• WC tested up to: 4.0.
• Tested up to: 5.3.

1.1.0 – 11/07/2019

• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated. “Your settings have been reset” notice added.
• Dev – “Total rules” default value changed to 1.
• Dev – Rule – “Admin title (optional)” option added.
• Dev – Rule – “Enable/Disable” default value changed to no.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Plugin URI updated.
• Tested up to: 5.2.
• WC tested up to: 3.6.

1.0.1 – 07/06/2018

• Fix – Break added in process_rules() function, so multiple status updates wouldn’t happen at once.
• Dev – “Skip days” rules options added.

1.0.0 – 16/05/2018

• Initial Release.