The default “Available for back order” message in WooCommerce is a little unhelpful to customers.
Use this function to change the message to something more suitable for your customers.
function change_backorder_message( $text, $product ){
if ( $product->managing_stock() && $product->is_on_backorder( 1 ) ) {
$text = __( 'Please allow 2 – 4 weeks for delivery of this item', 'your-textdomain' );
}
return $text;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_get_availability_text', 'change_backorder_message', 10, 2 );
grace
May 31, 2019Fantastic! What is meant to go in the ‘your-textdomain’ portion, and where does that bit show up on the front-end?
LWD
May 31, 2019Have a read about the __ function in WordPress https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/__/
It relates to translating the string into different languages
Jo
August 1, 2019Thanks for this, just what I needed.
Romain Olivier
February 14, 2020Works great ! Thank you.
Kalle Hansson
August 25, 2020What if I want to have the following options:
Out of stock (normal out of stock mode, no change)
1 week delivery (change the backorders_require_notification to this)
2 week delivery (change is_on_backorder to this, this is the code you have supplied in this post)
In addition to this I want to use the str_replace to remove “can be backordered”, like so:
$availability = str_replace(‘(can be backordered)’, ”, $availability);
How do I combine all these options into one snippet?
Zeth
September 3, 2020It doesn’t change it in the cart. Any words of advice on how to do that?
Marcos Belloli
November 6, 2020Where should I place the code above?
I’m not a developer and my knowledge of coding is 0.
Can anyone help me?
Jelle Marechal
January 14, 2021Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Sorry, but I get the following message when pasting your snippet in my functions.php file:
Your PHP code changes were rolled back due to an error on line 7 of file wp-content/themes/flatsome-child/functions.php. Please fix and try saving again.
syntax error, unexpected ‘}’, expecting end of file
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The entire snippet that returns the error message is:
managing_stock() && $product->is_on_backorder( 1 ) ) {
$text = __( ‘Please allow 2 – 4 weeks for delivery of this item’, ‘your-textdomain’ );
}
return $text;
}
add_filter( ‘woocommerce_get_availability_text’, ‘change_backorder_message’, 10, 2 );
JR Castor
April 3, 2021How would I be able to apply html to certain parts of the text? Inserting html tags only returns the html tags as string. Hope you can help!