Coby's Public Order Whisper (POW!)
If you have ever camped the Public tab of the crafting orders window, you know the frustration. A customer needs exactly what you sell, the tip is fair, and there is no way to reply. Public orders are anonymous by design. You can read the name, but reaching that player means typing a whisper, hunting down the item, and linking it at the right quality tier. Multiply that by twenty orders and most crafters simply give up. Coby's Public Order Whisper (POW!) fixes that with a single click.
What Coby's Public Order Whisper (POW!) Actually Does
The addon places a small chat bubble next to every customer's name in the Public tab of the crafting orders list. Your own orders never get one. Hover the bubble and you see the exact message that will be sent. Click it, and the player receives your whisper instantly, with the item they asked for linked in at the quality tier they requested. The bubble turns green for everyone you have already contacted this session, so you never double-message the same crafter by accident.
It also works on the order details page, the panel that opens when you click a specific order. The same bubble sits beside the customer's name, ready to fire. A per-player cooldown, 60 seconds by default and configurable up to 120, refuses repeat clicks in the meantime. If the game reports that the player could not be found, the bubble flashes red and the green mark is removed automatically.
Placeholders, Message Limits, and Smart Sending
The whisper message is written once and reused forever. Three placeholders do the heavy lifting:
- {item} becomes a link to the crafted item, at the requested quality when the order specifies one. Recraft orders link the item being recrafted.
- {name} becomes the customer's character name, without the realm.
- {tip} becomes the tip the customer set on the order, before the consortium cut, as plain text such as "150g 25s".
WoW whispers cap at 255 characters, and an item link eats roughly 100 of them. The settings window shows a live preview with a real link, so you can see whether your message fits before it matters. A message that would run over is not sent, and the addon tells you so instead of failing silently.
Prefer to review before sending? Enable "Put the whisper in my chat box" and every click fills your chat box with the finished whisper, ready to edit. Press Enter and it goes. That single toggle is the difference between a quick macro and full manual control.
Supported Versions and Addon Compatibility
Coby's Public Order Whisper (POW!) targets the modern crafting order system introduced in recent expansions, and it is built to keep working across the versions players actually run. That covers Retail, Classic, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria. Crafting orders only exist where the game supports them, so on older clients the addon simply stays quiet rather than throwing errors. It has no dependencies, which means no library chains to babysit and no conflicts with your auction house or profession addons.
If you manage a large addon folder, the foxygame.net launcher is worth a look. It keeps Coby's Public Order Whisper (POW!) current alongside the rest of your collection through automatic updates, so a Blizzard patch never leaves you staring at a broken bubble. Installation is equally painless on CurseForge: search for the addon, hit install, and let the client handle the rest.
How to Install Coby's Public Order Whisper (POW!)
Manual installation takes about thirty seconds. Download the addon archive, extract it, and drop the PublicOrderWhisper folder into your World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/ directory. Make sure the folder itself contains the .toc file rather than sitting inside another nested folder, which is the most common mistake. Restart the game or reload your UI, and you are done.
Once inside, open the settings with /pow settings, the gear icon beside the close button of the crafting orders window, the addon entry in the minimap addon list, or the Options menu under AddOns. Every option applies the moment you change it, no reload required.
Slash Commands Worth Knowing
- /pow message <text> sets the whisper text with {item}, {name}, and {tip} placeholders.
- /pow cooldown <sec> adjusts the per-player cooldown, or set it to 0 to disable it.
- /pow test whispers the current message to yourself so you can check the formatting.
- /pow debug opens a log window that captures version info, your WoW build, settings, and a timestamped event timeline.
- /pow reset restores every setting to its default.
/publicorderwhisper works exactly like /pow if you prefer typing it out.
Troubleshooting the Common Snags
No bubble on the order list? Confirm you are on the Public tab, that the order belongs to someone else, and that "Whisper icon in the order list" is enabled. If the debug log reports that the customer name cell could not be found, another addon has reshaped Blizzard's order table or a patch changed it. That log is precisely what the developer needs to ship a fix, and it is self-contained, so there is nothing extra to paste.
Seeing "attempt to perform arithmetic on a secret number value" errors from MoneyFrame alongside another crafting-order addon? That error originates from the other addon rebuilding the order table. Coby's Public Order Whisper (POW!) quietly suppresses that specific message so it does not spam your chat, and nothing else is affected.
The Bottom Line
Public crafting orders reward the crafters who actually reach out. Coby's Public Order Whisper (POW!) removes every friction point between seeing a good order and landing the customer: no typing, no item hunting, no quality tier guesswork, and no accidental repeats. Write your pitch once, click a bubble, and watch your order queue fill. For anyone who treats professions as a real income stream in World of Warcraft, it is one of the highest-value quality-of-life addons you can install.
--- **Update Oct 10, 2026:** Added 5 files for version 12.1.0.