Reorder Woocommerce checkout fields

Question

I am trying to reorder the billing fields on the checkout page but everything I tried so far is not working.

Here is the snippet I am currently trying:

add_filter("woocommerce_checkout_fields", "order_fields");

function order_fields($fields) {
  $order = array(
    "billing_first_name", 
    "billing_last_name", 
    "billing_country", 
    "billing_state", 
    "billing_address_1", 
    "billing_address_2", 
    "billing_email", 
    "billing_phone"
  );

  foreach($order as $field) {
    $ordered_fields[$field] = $fields["billing"][$field];
  }

  $fields["billing"] = $ordered_fields;
  return $fields;
}

Could something be overriding this snippet, because it used to work for me.

Answer 1

The method you are using no longer works (since the WooCommerce 3.0.4 update - link to github issue here). It's not exactly a bug, but rather a change of spec.

To fix this, you simply need to adjust the priority of each of the fields to fit the order that you want.

add_filter("woocommerce_checkout_fields", "custom_override_checkout_fields", 1);
function custom_override_checkout_fields($fields) {
    $fields['billing']['billing_first_name']['priority'] = 1;
    $fields['billing']['billing_last_name']['priority'] = 2;
    $fields['billing']['billing_company']['priority'] = 3;
    $fields['billing']['billing_country']['priority'] = 4;
    $fields['billing']['billing_state']['priority'] = 5;
    $fields['billing']['billing_address_1']['priority'] = 6;
    $fields['billing']['billing_address_2']['priority'] = 7;
    $fields['billing']['billing_city']['priority'] = 8;
    $fields['billing']['billing_postcode']['priority'] = 9;
    $fields['billing']['billing_email']['priority'] = 10;
    $fields['billing']['billing_phone']['priority'] = 11;
    return $fields;
}

add_filter( 'woocommerce_default_address_fields', 'custom_override_default_locale_fields' );
function custom_override_default_locale_fields( $fields ) {
    $fields['state']['priority'] = 5;
    $fields['address_1']['priority'] = 6;
    $fields['address_2']['priority'] = 7;
    return $fields;
}

Please note that it's not the line in code that adjusts the placement in the order, but the priority assigned to the field. In this case, I changed the ['billing_state'] priority to 5 which is (in this example) after ['billing_country'] and before ['billing_address_1'].

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EDIT:

As per the comments, this wasn't working for some reason (it worked on my first test WooCommerce installation, but I managed to get it to fail after changing the store location).

After some digging, I found that the default locale settings get applied on top of the override (not sure how else to explain this, but bear with me).

I managed to get an install running where the above code was not working, and managed to fix it by adding the following code as well:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_default_address_fields', 'custom_override_default_locale_fields' );
function custom_override_default_locale_fields( $fields ) {
    $fields['state']['priority'] = 5;
    $fields['address_1']['priority'] = 6;
    $fields['address_2']['priority'] = 7;
    return $fields;
}

I have added the extra snippet to the first code block to validate the entire block.

Answer 2

The ordering(sorting) works on address-i18n.min.js not in php code.

In my case, I did something wrong on my js code. So, the ordering didn't work well( javascript stop there ).

Please check dev console and js error.

And this is php code which change only priority.

function rpf_edit_default_address_fields($fields) {

  /* ------ reordering ------ */
  $fields['country']['priority'] = 10;
  $fields['first_name']['priority'] = 20;
  $fields['last_name']['priority'] = 30;
  $fields['address_1']['priority'] = 40;
  $fields['address_2']['priority'] = 50;
  $fields['city']['priority'] = 60;
  $fields['state']['priority'] = 70;
  $fields['postcode']['priority'] = 80;

  return $fields;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_default_address_fields', 'rpf_edit_default_address_fields', 100, 1 );

Good Luck!