Keep line breaks in product short description (and limit lines shown)

Hi there,

This is more of a WordPress question than WooCommerce one since the Short Description essentially makes use of the post excerpt function which, in turn, strip all HTML tags upon saving.

The following resources should help with that:

• https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/141125/allow-html-in-excerpt
• https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/141125/allow-html-in-excerpt

Thank you. I will give this a read and update this post.

I finally got it to work. Details below for those in the same situation:

SITE: https://dev.lowyusa.com/
THEME: OceanWP (Child Theme Activated)
WORDPRESS: v5.2.1
ASSOCIATED PLUGIN: WooCommerce
ISSUE: HTML tags (ul, li, br, etc.) are not allowed in product short description (aka product excerpt) as shown in product archives. OceanWP uses its own custom excerpts so excerpt plugins (such as Advanced Excerpts) do not work.
SOLUTION: Created a PHP function that pulls the post excerpt before it gets filtered and hooked it to an existing hook in the theme. I then placed it in the functions.php file of the child theme.

CODE:

function new_short_desc() {
	echo '<li class="woo-desc">';
		global $post;
		echo strip_shortcodes( the_excerpt() );
	echo '</li>';
}
add_filter( 'ocean_after_archive_product_categories', 'new_short_desc' );

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Patrick.