New “LIVE” label on wordpress toolbar, why?

@sean-h
A-men brother.

I still think this is all a joke .. after 2 weeks two or three updates but nothing addressing this confusing Live Label. Which code was it again to get rid of that in the correct way?

The biggest problem with the “LIVE” icon is that it made me think I was streaming live video or live audio. “Live” can be interpreted in a lot of different ways and nothing next to the “Live” text suggests it’s related to commerce.

20 people complaining on a install base of 6.6 million. That’s how much of a non issue it is.

Hi all,

Just to clarify and confirm, this LIVE label is part of the Coming Soon Mode that came in WooCommerce 9.1.

There are of course hooks & filters you can use to customize or disable it entirely, see the post on our developer site.

If you were up to it, I think you all could bring some worthwhile suggestions to be made on this feature over on GitHub as an Enhancement Request. For example, there is already a WordPress Environment type that perhaps WooCommerce could extend with our Coming Soon Mode feature.

Let me know if that helps and what you think!

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Ryan Ray, a11n.

I just use this remove that feature that really has no function to a site that’s been “LIVE” for years

// Remove Lauch Store Tab
add_filter( ‘woocommerce_admin_features’, function( $features ) {
$features = array_filter( $features, function( $value ) {
return $value !== ‘launch-your-store’;
});
return $features;
}, 10 );

// Remove WooCommerce “LIVE” option from admin bar
add_action( ‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘remove_wc_site_visibility_badge’, 999 );

function remove_wc_site_visibility_badge( $wp_admin_bar ) {
// Remove the ‘Live’ WooCommerce badge by ID
$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( ‘woocommerce-site-visibility-badge’ );
}

Thanks for sharing @mattthomas-photography.

I think with the above information, we could probably mark this thread as resolved, but please do create a new thread if we could discuss this further or anything else in Woo. Thanks!