Dynamically Change Order Date on Status Change

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Are old failed payments that are eventually paid for causing havoc with your reporting workflow because they get missed? WooCommerce offers a variety of action hooks on order status changes that can be used to dynamically change the order date. As an example of this, see the code snippet below:

	add_action( 'woocommerce_loaded', 'handsome_bearded_guy_wc_loaded' );
	function handsome_bearded_guy_wc_loaded() {
	$old_statuses = array(
	'failed',
	//uncomment any of the below statuses to include those statuses
	//'pending',
	//'processing',
	//'on-hold',
	//'cancelled',
	//'refunded'
	);
	foreach ( $old_statuses as $old_status ) {
	add_action( 'woocommerce_order_status_' . $old_status . '_to_completed', 'handsome_bearded_guy_change_posted_date', 99, 1 );
	}
	}
	function handsome_bearded_guy_change_posted_date( $order_id ) {
	$order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
	$args = array(
	'post_id' => $order_id,
	//wp_insert_post (called by wp_update_post) will set the date to "now" if `post_date` is empty, likewise with `post_date_gmt`
	'post_date' => '',
	'post_date_gmt' => '',
	);
	wp_update_post( $args );
	}

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