How to display Simple Product Attribute Descriptions

Hi there!

Am I understanding correctly that you’d like to display product attributes for simple products on the front-end as well?

If yes, you could check the visible on product page under Attributes tab as such:

Link to image: https://d.pr/i/sS99Nv

Result:

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Hi Aashik P,

Thanks for the reply – no i don’t mean there; i already have the custom attributes displaying in the right place on the ‘Additional Information’ tab. I mean the description which can be added by the user in the Product Attribute Admin page – See screenshots, Description circled in green :

attributes setup on product page

Displaying in Front-end Ok

admin page url

The description that i want to display in Front-end

Thank you for getting back with the screenshots @trutherone

I’m not sure I’m looking at the right page here. There isn’t an option to include a description for those attributes on my local site:

Link to image: https://d.pr/i/u0p1OU

Can you please send me the exact steps to access those details or a full-page screenshot of what you’re seeing so that we can point you in the right direction?

Hi,
Yes thats the right page, just click the ‘Configure Terms‘ blue link in the last column – that will take you to the taxonomy details page for each attribute.

The template page in question is, product-attributes.php

As you can see from the screenshots i have customised mine a little by outputting them in an unordered-list. The key variables are:

$product_attribute['label'] – which is the attribute title in the left table column and
$product_attribute['value'] which is a comma-separated string of each value which i split with PHP explode() and output via a for each loop. So i would have thought there would be a variable in the main product array called, $product_attribute['description'] or similar but, apparently, not.

Doing some research i think its because Simple product types dont allow this but if i were to change product types to ‘Grouped’ or ‘Variable’ then ‘description’ is available in the $product array – ill need to look into it further im still learning woocommerce …

cheeers

@trutherone Sorry, I completely missed that part!

This is a fairly complex development topic. I’m going to leave it open for a bit to see if anyone is able to chime in to help you out.

I can also recommend the following places for more development-oriented questions:

1. WooCommerce Slack Community: https://woocommerce.com/community-slack/
2. Advanced WooCommerce group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/advanced.woocommerce/