Dima Pavlenko

Thank you!

There is a setting to hide country for local shipping – works as long as the location is set properly in WooCommerce settings.

Anyway, don’t hesitate to modify the plugin code if you have basic HTML/JavaScript understanding. There’s a bunch of examples in support forum I provided within the relevant code areas, so you can simply remove that php/HTML section that outputs that data from the order.

Hi,

On many admin WordPress pages you have a “Screen Options” tab/button near the top menu bar, where you can select which columns/meta-boxes to hide/display.

There you should find “( ) Shipping Labels” option is most likely unchecked, thus its column/meta-box are hidden in the orders pages.

Dima

Hi guys,

Sorry for the inconvenience, due to recent months circumstances (personal and regional, i.e., living in Israel) many of my personal projects are on hold, including this plugin.

I hope to get to it during December. If anyone tinkers with the plugin, figures out what changed in WooCommerce and what may solve the aforementioned issues – message me directly on Facebook with any insights and I’ll update the plugin with the necessary fixes as soon as possible.

Thank you for the feedback and support ^-^

Dima

Hi, sorry for not replying on time.

If still relevant, in Chrome browser print dialogue > More settings > there’s a Pages per sheet setting you can try with this Free version first, see how it behaves. Maybe play with the layout (portrait/landscape), scale, see what works first.

There’s also the longer way, if you have the time, to save as PDF and then print from and PDF viewing software, maybe it’ll have more printing layouts available.

Dima

Hi,

First of all you need to verify you’ve set/installed your printer correctly in your computer/operating system. This is the most overlooked step when people get label printers for the first time. On Windows operating system, this means you’ve installed correct drivers and set the printer page type/size in printer settings (should be available after you installed the drivers, if wasn’t available before).

Check my answer on this thread:
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/couldnt-print-labels/
your goal is to be able to print anything on it, as if it’s a regular printer. Like print some Power Point slide/images – just that the printed page is the size of your label.

I highly recommend watching a few YouTube videos regarding your printer model installation and setup. This is my favorite resource for these kind of things:)

After you got your printer to print the correct page size, you can test printing the generated labels from Google Chrome (set the correct page size in Print Dialogue and margins to “None“).

This thread maybe relevant for your Brother printer as well:
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/simply-easy-great/

Hi,

The plugin was developed for use in Google Chrome browser, as it has sufficient print dialogue settings for it properly to work with any label printers. If you’re using Safari or any other browser please switch to Chrome, at least for testing purposes.

If you’re using Chrome, I’m guessing the new browser tab that should get generated with labels (a.k.a “Pop-up“) is blocked due to either one (or both) of the following cases:

• Your browser is blocking pop-ups from your site – either your browser settings block pop-ups for all sites by default, or you might have blocked pop-ups for this site yourself, if you recall any prompt window the first time you tried generating the labels.
• You have some Ad-Block extension installed – they too prevent popups. In this case you need to enable pop-ups for your site in the extension settings.

There is a similar thread topic you might find useful: Stuck on “Generating”

If the above didn’t seem to help – please contact me via Facebook Messenger and send screenshots of page console output (in Windows Chrome click F12 key) when you generate a label. I’ll get back to my development environment in the next few days and hopefully address the rest of the topics accumulated in the support forum:)

Dima

Hey!

It’s a great idea, which ideally should be implemented with a sophisticated visual editor. Similar to some page builders, providing smart fields to select any meta data to display. Maybe even scanning 3rd party custom fields (meta data) plugins.

Like Elementor‘s “Dynamic Tags” (a.k.a Dynamic Content), which draws content from the website, or from the current page/post, changing dynamically according to the Page or Post it’s on. Given a rich “PowerPoint“-like visual editor, you would add a dynamic data box where you need them, or inline text tag, to render some meta data.

Creating such an editor would require very sophisticated client code in React or Angular, to make it right. So, it’s pretty complicated.

But, for specific needs, you can (relatively) easily modify this simple plugin. I bothered to document pretty much every code block there is, so it’s easier to understand. For others and for me supporting the plugin in the future, forgetting how it works every single time:)

Here are the areas you’ll probably add your functionality to:

In the plugin /admin folder there is an admin.php file with the label page generation function:

function generate_shipping_labels_page_html( $orders ) {...}

it’s the AJAX function generating the page of labels on the server, which you then get to print in the new opened tab.

In that function, there is a foreach loop, to get the orders objects from WooCommerce database:

foreach ($orders as $order_id) {...}

that’s where you can use the current $order_id or the $order object to get the order client meta data you need, from wherever you’re storing it.

The label HTML layout is generated in the switch statement, based on the saved layout name in the plugin settings:

switch ( $this->settings['recipient_details_layout'] ) {...}

There you can either modify an existing layout, or add your own.

If you add your own, add the corresponding layout option to the settings page array of layout options to select:

public $recipient_details_layout_options = array(...);

To adjust or add CSS, just search some fields classes to find where they are in the code. Most of the label CSS is using flexboxes, so fields are dynamically spread evenly, in case some don’t exist (like phone or country name, based on plugin settings).

Contact me directly via Facebook if you get stuck on something. It will be easier for me to send screenshots to explain.

Hi,

In short: I’m going to adjust the plugin and keep this thread open until I do. I understand it’s urgent so I’m working on it.

Sorry for the inconvenience but yes, there was a breaking change (mentioned in the Change Log section under Development tab in the plugin repository), which should have used the WooCommerce WC_Order class shipping_phone field, rather than the previously used billing_phone.

Initialy, the reason for this change was that someone contacted me directly through my website, mentioned he’s not getting the shipping phone field on the label. I recalled there was never a dedicated shipping phone field in WooCommerce, but only billing phone. I even had a comment to myself in the plugin code that it’s weired.

After some research, turned out WooCommerce 5.6 release, around August 2021, added get_shipping_phone() method to the WC_Order class, and there actually is a shipping phone field, if you click the shipping details edit button in some order.

I guess for some reason, WooCommerce duplicates the billing details to shipping details, except the phone field, which is left empty. Furthermore, most themes don’t expose yet that dedicated shipping phone input field (when “Ship to a different address?” checkbox is selected, showing a separate shipping address form).

So, for now I guess I’ll simply use the billing phone if the shipping phone is empty. Hopefully it won’t lead to too many problems, since billing person’s phone might be different from the receiving one. At least until WooCoommerce and themes figure it out. Anyway this solution should work the same as previous versions and handle the new cases.

Dima