show a short description in shop & category pages

Something like this:

add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title', 'output_product_excerpt', 35 );

function output_product_excerpt() {
global $post;
echo $post->post_excerpt;
}

This outputs the full excerpt. You can adjust length etc from there using PHP code.

Hi Mike,

Much thanks for the help – finally worked.

Having a little trouble with setting excerpt lengths though…
Not a php coder – strictly copy & paste.

Any additional help appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken

Look at the examples in https://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

Thanks for the pointer.
Time to do a bit of learning…
Regards,
Ken

Hi,where to put the code to show short description?..

Its ok.. its worked after put in on function.php ??

This is what i was looking for tnx

Hi

I found a practical solution to cut the length.
This may be helpful for others:

First a function to limit the text length:

function limit_text($text, $limit) {
      if (str_word_count($text, 0) > $limit) {
          $words = str_word_count($text, 2);
          $pos = array_keys($words);
          $text = substr($text, 0, $pos[$limit]) . '...';
      }
      return $text;
    }

Then the actual action hook:

add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title', 'output_product_excerpt', 35 );

	function output_product_excerpt() {
	global $post;
	//assign variable $rest and call the function limit_text with value as shown
        //in this example 10 words is the maximum
	$rest = limit_text($post->post_excerpt,10);
        //render $rest
	echo '<p>' . $rest .'</p><i><a href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">more</a></i>';
}

I tested the code and it seems to work. Cutting the text by words makes more sense
than subtracting single characters ($rest = substr(“abcdef”, 0, -1); // returns “abcde”).
Note: limit_text() needn’t be altered at all.

Compared with the simple method to limit an excerpt in wordpress, it is a little more work in woocommerce.

regards
theo

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by timholz.

Thanks, its a nice script and very useful

@mikejolley

Awesome man! Thanks so much. How would I add a custom class to style the short description? Right now when it displays on my main shop page I need to finesse the style without effecting how it appears on the product page. Any info would help.