Ericka Lu

This is perfect:

printf(‘<span class=”hide-on-related”>%s</span>’, $limit_desc);

Ironically the conditional tags were not working at all for us. I checked the code so many times I know there was nothing wrong with it. But the css solution was what we were looking for originally and it works perfect!

You have been such a great help! I’m absolutely positively sure dozens of developers in the future will be reading this thread and will be utilizing your knowledge in this particular situation. Once again we want to thank you so much! You are awesome! 😉

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Ericka Lu.

So the code we are using is:

add_action('woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title', 'show_short_desc_in_archive_item', 2);

function show_short_desc_in_archive_item () {
	global $product;
	$short_desc = apply_filters( 'woocommerce_short_description', $product->get_short_description() );

	//change the value "30" to your desired word length
	$limit_desc = substr($short_desc, 0, 30);

	if(is_category( $category )) {
		echo $limit_desc;
	}
}

and it’s not working for us.

It’s not working for us. We are actually using a wordpress category template with the woocommere short code. We can’t even set that category page in the “shop” Woocommerce settings option from the drop down menu. We looked at the additional conditional tags but there is not an option for just “categories”. There is an option for “Product categories” but not just for “categories” which the shop design template is based off. If the product short description had a css class then we could always use css to display: none on other pages other than the page we want it to display on. We appreciate all your hard work and know that other future people in this situation will benefit off your knowledge as well.

Thank you!

Is it possible to show excerpts with the short code with the limit? Thanks!