Shortcodes dont show in short description

Hey there,

I did some testing around this to try and figure out where things are going wrong.

By default, the Storefront theme doesn’t have a way to show the short description of products – that’s allowed through the Powerpack option (Powerpack > Shop > Display description).

To test HTML behavior, part of the short description has been made bold. This works correctly on the front page of Storefront (not using a block) as well as on a block page.

Interestingly, the short description doesn’t show up when editing the page with blocks, but it does show up once viewing the page:

Link to image: https://cld.wthms.co/cM8We5

Viewing page:

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I used the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin to quickly generate shortcodes to test – this lets us know if it’s a shortcode problem, or a problem with the plugin that you’re using. Shortcodes do not render on the normal Storefront front page or on the page using Woo blocks:

Link to image: https://cld.wthms.co/n31YTs

Given that Storefront isn’t meant to show the short description without some extra code, this is happening on the Storefront Powerpack level. To make shortcodes render correctly in the short descriptions, you’ll need to add some custom code. This is beyond what we can offer support for, but I do have a snippet that may help you in the right direction:

remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item', 'sp_loop_product_description', 6 );
add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item', 'wp_11326339_custom_description', 6 );

function wp_11326339_custom_description() {
    global $product;

    $wc_product = wc_get_product( $product );

    if ( ! $wc_product ) {
        return false;
    }

$short_description = $wc_product->get_short_description();

    if ( '' !== $short_description ) {
        echo '<div itemprop="description">' . do_shortcode( wpautop( wptexturize( $short_description ) ) ) . '</div>';
    }    
}

If that doesn’t help, I highly recommend contacting one of the services on our customizations page: https://woocommerce.com/customizations/

You’re also welcome to add this suggestion to our Ideas Board – others can then vote on the ideas, and we use it to track all requests. You can find it here: http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Hannah S.L..