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WP_Query and WooCommerce orders with pending status issue


Your code Is just working perfectly as expected, in frontend, I have test it and it output only orders with **pending status. So I can't tell what is your issue as your question is not detailed.

I have found this note on WordPress WP_Query reference that could be useful:
Note: Ticket #18408 For querying posts in the admin, consider using get_posts() as wp_reset_postdata() might not behave as expected.

In general, I don't use WP_Query() for customer orders but wc_get_orders() (or get_posts() too) this way:

$customer_orders = wc_get_orders( array(    'limit'    => -1,    'status'   => 'pending') );// Iterating through each Order with pending statusforeach ( $customer_orders as $order ) {    // Going through each current customer order items    foreach($order->get_items() as $item_id => $item_values){        $product_id = $item_values['product_id']; // product ID        // Order Item meta data        $item_meta_data = wc_get_order_item_meta( $item_id );        // Some output        echo '<p>Line total for '.wc_get_order_item_meta( $item_id, '_line_total', true ).'</p><br>';    }}

This works also just to get the orders objects.

Related documentation: wc_get_orders and WC_Order_Query


I fixed this weird issue by simply using custom query.

Somehow adding 'post_status' => 'wc-pending' doesn't actually change the query, but if I use 'post_status' => 'pending', the query changes.

So what I did was using that custom query and modify pending to wc-pending.


I do have the same issue (returning ALL Orders) while debugging.

Wrapping the debug-code into an action helped outputting the expected data:

add_action( 'init', 'debug_init' );function debug_init() {    $custom_query_args = array(        "fields" => "ids",        "post_type" => "shop_order",        "post_status" => array('wc-processing'),        "posts_per_page" => "-1",        "offset" => "0",        "date_query" => [                "before" => "2020-09-10 23:59",                "after" => "1970-01-01 00:00",                "inclusive" => "1"        ],        "order" => "DESC"    );    $debugQuery = new WP_Query( $custom_query_args );    $order_ids   = $debugQuery->posts;    print_r($order_ids);    die();}