WP_Query and WooCommerce orders with pending status issue - php

Question

I can't get order objects with status of wc-pending / Pending Payment. It simply returns ALL the order objects:
$my_course_query = new WP_Query( array(
'post_type' => 'shop_order',
'post_status' => 'wc-pending',
'posts_per_page' => -1
) );

Answer 1

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 status
foreach ( $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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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();
}