Add product category to order email?

Hi apreston48,

There is an email template called “email-order-items.php” located at
woocommerce/templates/emails/email-order-items.php

It’s used with the WC_Order:email_order_items_table() method called from this file: customer-completed-order.php
here:
https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/blob/master/templates/emails/customer-completed-order.php#L29

If you override that template by copying it from
/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/emails/email-order-items.php
to
/wp-content/themes/[YOUR THEME]/woocommerce/emails/email-order-items.php

in your copy, you can add some code right about here:
https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/blob/master/templates/emails/email-order-items.php#L29

that would pull the terms (categories) for the product similar to what is happening here:
https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/blob/master/classes/abstracts/abstract-wc-product.php#L1077

Then you can display the categories.

Thanks for the reply Daniel! I understand everything that is needed except the exact code to play in the copied email-order.items.php file. Also, sounds like there is code elsewhere that I need to add in order to display it.

I’m not a developer, so I was curious if there was a simple way I could copy and paste the code where needed.

Did you resolve this problem in the end as I need to do this too for one of my clients. I understand how to make the basic edits to the HTML / PHP but I don’t know what those edits should be.

Can someone please post how to include the product category in the order email ?

I did not get this resolved. I’m looking for the same how-to steps. I’m familiar with HTML / PHP too but not enough and was looking for the exact code and placement to get the product category to show on the order email.

If anyone can help, that would be great. Thanks!

Good day. You can achieve this by adding this code under line 19 of
wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/emails/email-order-items.php

$terms = get_the_term_list( $_product->id, 'product_cat' );

then under this line of code

<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; border: 1px solid #eee; word-wrap:break-word;">

add this line

<?php echo ''.$terms.': '; ?>

voila. you got the code.

Hi taongsagin

I wonder if you could help me. I need to get the category into the email-order-items.php, I have tried adding the code above, but I can’t find the second lot of code (<td style=”text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; border: 1px solid #eee; word-wrap:break-word;”>)
in mine to replace. I have copied my code below.

Thanks in advance for your help, really appreciate it.

<?php
/**
* Email Order Items (plain)
*
* @author WooThemes
* @package WooCommerce/Templates/Emails/Plain
* @version 2.0.0
*/

if ( ! defined( ‘ABSPATH’ ) ) exit; // Exit if accessed directly

global $woocommerce;

foreach ( $items as $item ) :

// Get/prep product data
$_product = $order->get_product_from_item( $item );
$item_meta = new WC_Order_Item_Meta( $item[‘item_meta’] );

// Title, sku, qty, price
echo apply_filters( ‘woocommerce_order_product_title’, $item[‘name’], $_product );
echo $show_sku && $_product->get_sku() ? ‘ (#’ . $_product->get_sku() . ‘)’ : ”;

// Variation
echo $item_meta->meta ? “\n” . nl2br( $item_meta->display( true, true ) ) : ”;

// Quantity
echo “\n” . sprintf( __( ‘Quantity: %s’, ‘woocommerce’ ), $item[‘qty’] );

// Cost
echo “\n” . sprintf( __( ‘Cost: %s’, ‘woocommerce’ ), $order->get_formatted_line_subtotal( $item ) );

// Download URLs
if ( $show_download_links && $_product->exists() && $_product->is_downloadable() )
echo “\n” . implode( “\n”, $order->get_downloadable_file_urls( $item[‘product_id’], $item[‘variation_id’], $item ) );

// Note
if ( $show_purchase_note && $purchase_note = get_post_meta( $_product->id, ‘_purchase_note’, true ) )
echo “\n” . nl2br( $purchase_note );

echo “\n\n”;

endforeach;