DahuConcept Order Notes for WooCommerce

On a busy shop, the order notes panel fills up with machine-generated entries:
status changes, stock movements, refunds, tracking numbers, invoice events. The
one note that matters — the one a colleague typed about this particular
customer — is buried among them.

WooCommerce already styles customer notes and system notes differently. It
cannot style the third category: notes generated by code while a staff member
is logged in. Changing an order status from the admin screen produces a note
attributed to that person, indistinguishable in the markup from a note they
typed themselves.

DahuConcept Order Notes identifies those and leaves the hand-written ones highlighted.

How detection works

Automatic notes are recognised by their wording. Rather than hardcoding that
wording in one language, the plugin rebuilds its patterns at runtime from
WooCommerce’s own translatable strings. It therefore follows whatever locale
your shop runs in, with no configuration — French, German, Spanish or any other
translated locale works out of the box.

Notes added by other plugins can be declared in the settings screen, one phrase
per line, or through a filter for developers.

What it does not do

The plugin never writes to the database and never alters a note’s content or
metadata. Everything is computed at display time. Deactivating it leaves no
trace.

Features

• Highlights hand-written private notes on the order screen
• Locale-independent detection, rebuilt from WooCommerce’s own translations
• Configurable highlight colours
• Additional phrases configurable from the settings screen, no code needed
• ubac_notes_auto_patterns filter for developers
• Works with both legacy order storage and High-Performance Order Storage

External services

This plugin does not contact any external service.