Title: Custom taxonomy description shortcode
Last modified: November 4, 2017

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# Custom taxonomy description shortcode

 *  Resolved [dlikelith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlikelith/)
 * (@dlikelith)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomy-description-shortcode/)
 * Hello
 * Would it be possible for your to provide any help (like tutorial links) how to
   create shortcode for custom taxonomy description value.
 * For example if there is woocommerce custom taxonomy LOCAL STORE, There is value
   like “Wamarts”, and it has description “This local store is very nice”.
    What
   shortcode would call this description?
 * Thank you very much in advance for any help.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomy-description-shortcode/#post-9650900)
 * Tutorials about creating shortcodes are plentiful, so that part can be covered
   with some general searching or even just reading the WordPress codex.
 * Terme descriptions look like they can be grabbed with `term_description()`
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/term_description](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/term_description)
 * You’d need to provide the term ID as the first parameter, and the woocommerce
   taxonomy slug as the 2nd.
 * The shortcode could simply echo the function return value. From the looks of 
   it, passing zero terms should have it try to display the description of the current
   queried term/taxonomy.

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