Title: How to modify product description excerpt appearance?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# How to modify product description excerpt appearance?

 *  [ldekay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldekay/)
 * (@ldekay)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-modify-product-description-excerpt-appearance/)
 * -The default excerpt appearance on the Products page has a large title (probably
   Heading 1 format) that wraps horrendously in Grid View
    -The excerpt has a run-
   on appearance that doesn’t respect the html formatting in the description. -The
   List View shows each product in an excessively large box which makes for a lot
   of scrolling to get to the bottom of the list.
 * The plug-in description cites easy formatting of the product presentation but
   I don’t see how that is done. Is there a way to change the default formatting
   of the Products and other pages?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-ecommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-ecommerce/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Bojan Radonic – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support4/)
 * (@wpmudev-support4)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-modify-product-description-excerpt-appearance/#post-6672452)
 * Hey there ldekay,
 * Hope you’re well today 🙂
 * All of these changes should be possible to do with some custom CSS. Would you
   mind posting link to those pages where you want to change this and let me know
   what exactly you’d want to change and I’ll be more then happy to try to help 
   🙂
 * Cheers,
    Bojan
 *  Thread Starter [ldekay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldekay/)
 * (@ldekay)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-modify-product-description-excerpt-appearance/#post-6672475)
 * Thanks for the help Bojan,
 * The Products page is at [http://whitesalmonevents.com/iafi/store/products/](http://whitesalmonevents.com/iafi/store/products/)
 * I’ve currently set the parameters to display grid view with thumbnails which 
   displays 4 columns with outsized title type.
 * I found that if I set to grid view with medium images it defaults to two columns
   and the titles appear much more proportional, though there’s still quite a bit
   of scrolling to get through the entire list.
 * When I set to list view the container box for each item is oversized for the 
   content.
 * In all cases I would prefer the individual container to be tighter around the
   content with a proportional type size so there’s less scrolling to go through
   the list. Refer to [http://www.iafi.org/store.html](http://www.iafi.org/store.html)
   as an example.
 * Thanks again, Lloyd DeKay
 *  Plugin Author [Bojan Radonic – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support4/)
 * (@wpmudev-support4)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-modify-product-description-excerpt-appearance/#post-6672591)
 * Hey again Lloyd DeKay,
 * You can try adding the following CSS code in the style.css file of your [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   or if your theme doesn’t have custom CSS tab add it in your site using the following
   plugin:
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css](http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css)
 *     ```
       @media screen and (min-width: 900px) {
       .hentry.mp_one_tile.mp_thumbnail.mp_excerpt {
           margin-right: 0;
           width: 24%;
       }
   
       img.mp_product_image_list.photo.alignleft.wp-post-image {
           width: 100%;
       }
   
       h3.mp_product_name.entry-title {
           width: 100%;
       }
   
       #content h3.mp_product_name.entry-title {
           width: 100%;
           font-size: 25px;
       }
       }
       ```
   
 * The added code will work only on bigger resolutions and it will reduce heading
   size, as well as increase each product width in the grid so it fits better. Please
   let me know what you think and if you want to add anything else 🙂
 * Cheers,
    Bojan
 *  Thread Starter [ldekay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldekay/)
 * (@ldekay)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-modify-product-description-excerpt-appearance/#post-6672609)
 * Thanks, that works well for expanding the width and changing the title font size.
   
   I’m still bothered that the excerpt has a run-on appearance that doesn’t respect
   the html formatting in the description. It also doesn’t appear to honor the ‘!–
   more–‘ html to limit the excerpt length ‘<p>The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist
   and the World’s Greatest Flood By John Soennichsen Sasquatch Books, 2008</p> 
   <p>The Riddle of the Scablands: The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains
   in Eastern Washington is characterized by <!–more–>dramatic coulees, gullies,
   and deserts;’
 *  produces (bold emphasis added to hilite missing html adhereance, and note that
   line breaks are present but aren’t retained in this post)
 * The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World’s Greatest Floo**dB**
   y John Soennichse**nS**asquatch Books, 200**8T**he Riddle of the Scablands: The
   land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains in Eastern Washington is characterized
   by** dramatic coulees,**
    [http://whitesalmonevents.com/iafi/store/products/](http://whitesalmonevents.com/iafi/store/products/)
 *  Plugin Author [Bojan Radonic – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support4/)
 * (@wpmudev-support4)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-modify-product-description-excerpt-appearance/#post-6672648)
 * Hey Lloyd DeKay,
 * I did some testing and I can confirm the issue with the more tag not working,
   what you can do is use product post excerpt instead. I tested adding paragraphs(
   <p> tag) and that worked as well, see screenshot [http://screencast.com/t/EZ2aW0phvV](http://screencast.com/t/EZ2aW0phvV).
 * I don’t believe we’re going to add support for more tags to this version of MarketPress
   as we’re working on the completely new version or the plugin.
 * Hope this helps 🙂
 * Cheers,
    Bojan

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