Short Description and Categorize order

Hello MJ,
Printing the products by category is quite difficult, you’d have to create a custom template and then loop through all the products to categorize them and then print them per category. Adding the Category and short description is easier:
Displaying product description
Print a list of categories under each product name

If you prefer a solution that doesn’t require meddling with custom code snippets, you can do both these things with our Premium Templates extension too (as you can see in the screenshot, you can choose to put the short description below the product or in a separate column):

Hope that helps!

Hi Ewout,

Thank you for your quick response.

How about the categorized product by category? Is that possible ?

Like this,

PRODUCTS QUANTITY PRICE
Condiments(Category)
soy sauce 1 ?1,000.00
vinegar 1 ?1,000.00

Thanks,
MJ

Technically that’s possible, but as I wrote in my previous response, this will require some custom coding:

Printing the products by category is quite difficult, you’d have to create a custom template and then loop through all the products to categorize them and then print them per category

Hi Ewout,

How about, sort the product by category?

example

Product 1 Condiments
Product 2 Condiments
Product 3 Condiments
Product 4 Vegetables
Product 5 Vegetables

Thanks,
MJ

Hi @hpiiph102,

You can use the following code snippet to achieve that:

// Sort items on the invoice alphabetically by category
add_filter( 'wpo_wcpdf_order_items_data', 'wpo_wcpdf_sort_items_by_category', 10, 3 );
function wpo_wcpdf_sort_items_by_category ( $items, $order, $document_type ) {
	if( $document_type == 'invoice' ) {
		usort($items, function ($a, $b) {
			$categories_a = strip_tags( wc_get_product_category_list( $a['product_id'] ) );
			$categories_b = strip_tags( wc_get_product_category_list( $b['product_id'] ) );
			return strcmp($categories_a, $categories_b);
		});
	}
	return $items;
}

This code snippet should be placed in the functions.php of your child theme. If you haven’t worked with code snippets or functions.php before please read this: How to use filters