[Support request] Category view stripping formatting from Woocommerce Short Product Desc.

[Michael]

I have just purchased the GP Premium and have an issue with category views of products.

The Category view is stripping formatting (<p></p> & <br>) from Woocommerce “Short Product Descriptions”. The formatting shows correctly on the individual product page (pics below).

I am using TinyMCE and have selected the ” Keep paragraph tags in the Classic block and the Classic Editor” option.

When trouble shooting I deactivated all plugins expect Woocommerce and got the same results.

Category view:

Product view:

The site I am working on is a staging site so I am unable to send a direct link.

here is the code:
<p>Ludger EB10 cartidges have been designed for purification of glycans from proteins, salts, and detergents.</p><p>Applications include cleanup of glycans following hydrazinolysis, endoglycosidase digests (including PNGase F digests), enzyme treatment, and before and after fluorescent labeling.</p>
<p>View product documentation as PDF<br>
View Certificate of Analysis as PDF</p>
<p>contains 6 cartridges</p>
<p>Part Number: LC-EB10-A6</p>

thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer.

[David]

Hi there,

The default Woo template doesn’t display HTML in the archive summary. You can try this PHP snippet to hook in an excerpt that should display the HTML:

add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title', 'db_shop_html_summary', 20);

function db_shop_html_summary() {
	global $post;
	$desc = '<div class="category-desc">' .apply_filters( 'woocommerce_short_description', $post->post_excerpt ). '</div>';
	echo $desc;
	
	global $product;
	echo $product->list_attributes();
}

[Michael]

I added the recommended code to my child theme’s functions.php but still have same results.

This should go in my child themes functions.php with no modifications, correct?

I have taken the site live…here is an example:
https://www.qa-bio.com/product-category/endoglycosidases/

[Michael]

I was able to fix it with the following added to child theme functions.php:

//allows html in short product descriptions to show on category page
function dhvc_woo_excerpt_custom($output,$post){
return do_shortcode($post->post_excerpt);
}
add_filter(‘dhvc-woo-excerpt’, ‘dhvc_woo_excerpt_custom’,10,2);

[David]

Glad you found a solution

[Author]

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