Inserting Shortcode into WooCommerce Product Description

Question

We need to add shortcode into the WooCommerce Product Description. The intent is that we can call blocks into specific products and just update that block vs. the each individual listing. Any idea how to do so? Currently it just shows the actual shortcode, not the content.

This is the shortcode: [block id="product-callouts-01"]

I tried this code in my Functions.php file, but to no avail:

if (!function_exists('woocommerce_template_single_excerpt')) {
   function woocommerce_template_single_excerpt( $post ) {
       global $post;
       if ($post->post_excerpt) echo '<div itemprop="description">' . do_shortcode(wpautop(wptexturize($post->post_excerpt))) . '</div>';
   }
}

You should provide your code in your question, even if it doesn't work. — LoicTheAztec
– LoicTheAztec, Commented Sep 18, 2023 at 17:32
Is it for product description or for product short description (excerpt)? — LoicTheAztec
– LoicTheAztec, Commented Sep 18, 2023 at 17:45

Arleigh Hix · Accepted Answer · 2023-09-18 19:06:03Z

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Try This code to your function.php

function custom_woocommerce_product_description($description) {

    $pattern = '/\[block id="([^\]]+)"\]/'; 
    if (preg_match($pattern, $description, $matches)) {
        $shortcode = $matches[0];
        $block_id = $matches[1];

        $block_content = get_block_content_by_id($block_id); 
        $description = str_replace($shortcode, $block_content, $description);
    }

    return do_shortcode($description);
}

add_filter('woocommerce_short_description', 'custom_woocommerce_product_description');

function get_block_content_by_id($block_id) {
    $block_content = "Replace this with the actual content of the block";

    return $block_content;
}

?>

edited Sep 18, 2023 at 19:06

Arleigh Hix

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answered Sep 18, 2023 at 17:49

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2 Comments

IVCatalina Over a year ago

When you say "replace this with actual content of the block", are you referring to the text in the block or the shortcode? We don't want to be having to edit the functions file each time when making changes to the block.

Community Over a year ago

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LoicTheAztec · Accepted Answer · 2023-09-20 08:26:39Z

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To add a shortcode to the product description, you can try the following:

add_filter( 'the_content', 'change_product_description' );
function change_product_description( $post_content ) {
    global $post;

    if( get_post_type($post->ID) === 'product' ) {
        $post_content .= do_shortcode('[block id="product-callouts-01"]');
    }
    return $post_content;
}

Code goes in functions.php file of your child theme (or in a plugin). It should work.

edited Sep 20, 2023 at 8:26

answered Sep 18, 2023 at 18:02

LoicTheAztec

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2 Comments

IVCatalina Over a year ago

This is bringing back the following error: "Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function change_product_description()"

LoicTheAztec Over a year ago

@IVCatalina Sorry I have updated my answer code...

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